135+ Sun Tzu Quotes

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Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

Sun Tzu

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

Sun Tzu

They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

Sun Tzu

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

Sun Tzu

Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring back news from the enemy’s camp.

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Having inward spies, making use of officials of the enemy.

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Having local spies means employing the services of the inhabitants of a district.

Sun Tzu

Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

Sun Tzu

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.

Sun Tzu

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Sun Tzu

By means of water, an enemy may be intercepted, but not robbed of all his belongings.

Sun Tzu

A wind that rises in the daytime lasts long, but a night breeze soon falls.

Sun Tzu

Do not attack from the leeward.

Sun Tzu

When you start a fire, be to windward of it.

Sun Tzu

The material for raising fire should always be kept in readiness.

Sun Tzu

In order to carry out an attack, we must have means available.

Sun Tzu

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

Sun Tzu

Be stern in the council-chamber, so that you may control the situation.

Sun Tzu

This is called ability to accomplish a thing by sheer cunning.

Sun Tzu

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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.

Sun Tzu

On contentious ground, I would hurry up my rear.

Sun Tzu

To muster his host and bring it into danger:—this may be termed the business of the general.

Sun Tzu

How to make the best of both strong and weak—that is a question involving the proper use of ground.

Sun Tzu

Strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head.

Sun Tzu

Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail.

Sun Tzu

If there is no help for it, they will fight hard.

Sun Tzu

If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm.

Sun Tzu

Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear.

Sun Tzu

Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.

Sun Tzu

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.

Sun Tzu

Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them.

Sun Tzu

Make forays in fertile country in order to supply your army with food.

Sun Tzu

Rapidity is the essence of war.

Sun Tzu

On desperate ground, fight.

Sun Tzu

On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem.

Sun Tzu

In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march.

Sun Tzu

On serious ground, gather in plunder.

Sun Tzu

On ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies.

Sun Tzu

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On open ground, do not try to block the enemy’s way.

Sun Tzu

On contentious ground, attack not.

Sun Tzu

On facile ground, halt not.

Sun Tzu

On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not.

Sun Tzu

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

Sun Tzu

Ground on which each side has liberty of movement is open ground.

Sun Tzu

Ground the possession of which imports great advantage to either side, is contentious ground.

Sun Tzu

He who knows them not, nor practises them, will surely be defeated.

Sun Tzu

These six are the principles connected with Earth.

Sun Tzu

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Sun Tzu

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

Sun Tzu

This is a certain road to victory.

Sun Tzu

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