It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down -- Yagyu Munenori

 

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. -- George Patton

 

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Courage is the first of the virtues, because it makes all others possible. -- Aristotle

 

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. -- Theodore Roosevelt

 

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. -- Plato

 

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. -- Epictetus

 

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. -- Mark Twain

 

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. -- Lao Tzu

 

In war there is no substitute for victory. -- General Douglas MacArthur

 

Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. -- Sun Tzu

 

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the Attack. -- Sun Tzu

 

In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected. -- Sun Tzu

 

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete. -- Sun Tzu

 

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. -- George Orwell

 

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. -- Sun Tzu

 

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding. -- Sun Tzu

 

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. -- Admiral William "Bull" Halsey

 

Spontaneous adaptability is the key to a warrior’s survival. -- Suro Mike Inay

 

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe. -- Abraham Lincoln

 

A warrior may choose pacifism. Others are condemned to it. -- Unknown

 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- Benjamin Franklin

 

The stick is equally as deadly as the blade in the right person's hands. -- Suro Mike Inay

 

To fight and conquer in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy with no fight at all, that's the highest skill. -- Sun Tzu

 

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. -- Suzuki

 

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive. -- Sun Tzu

To know the art is one thing. To understand it is yet another and maybe that is the difference between a student and a Guro. -- Suro Mike Inay

 

Never mistake an act of kindness as a sign of weakness. -- Unknown

 

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked. -- Queen Christina of Sweden

 

A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time; and a courageous person afterward. -- Jean Paul Richter

 

Speak softly and carry a big stick. -- Theodore Roosevelt

 

Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price. -- Sun Tzu

 

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. -- Winston Spencer Churchill

 

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. -- Winston Spencer Churchill

 

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. -- Daniel Webster

 

Make every move count. Pick your target and hit it. Perfect concentration means effortless flowing. -- Masirib Jeff Elliott

 

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. -- Daniel Webster

 

When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground. -- Sun Tzu

 

The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. -- Wyatt Earp

 

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! -- Admiral David G. Farragut

 

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. -- Miyamoto Musashi

 

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. -- William Cowper

 

A bad peace is even worse than war. -- Tacitus

 

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. -- John F. Kennedy

 

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. -- Charlie Finley

 

The blade is the great equalizer. -- Suro Mike Inay

 

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell

 

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. -- John Adams

 

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. -- Vince Lombardi

 

The coward only threatens when he is safe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur

 

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -- Aristotle

 

If you are going to war, you take a weapon. Therefore this (Eskrima) is a true Martial Art. -- Suro Mike Inay

 

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George S. Patton

 

Ability is nothing without opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. -- Sun Tzu

 

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. -- Tacitus

 

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. -- General Douglas MacArthur

 

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. -- John Stuart Mill

 

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. -- Lao Tzu

 

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. -- Vince Lombardi

 

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. -- Sun Tzu

 

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry

 

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. -- General Douglas MacArthur

 

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. -- Ulysses S. Grant

 

Winners never quit and quitters never win. -- Vince Lombardi

 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. -- Mark Twain

 

It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain

 

Speed is fine but accuracy is final. -- Bill Jordan

 

All war is deception. -- Sun Tzu

 

Without honor there is no art, only pretenders in a brawl. -- Suro Mike Inay

 

To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!' -- Lao Tzu

 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain

 

If you think you can, you're right. If you think you can't, you're also right. -- Henry Ford

 

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. -- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot

 

Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. -- Tsukahara Bokuden

 

It is missing the point to think that the martial art is solely in cutting a man down. It is not in cutting people down; it is in killing evil. It is the stratagem of killing the evil of one man and giving life to ten thousand. -- Yagyu Munenori

 

The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value. -- Miyamato Musashi