Sun Tzu Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Art, Crazy, War

Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, CreateSpace
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

Business, War, Fighting
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Sun Tzu

Wisdom, War, Fighting

Sun Tzu, Musashi Miyamoto, Inazo Nitobe (2016). “The Art of War - a Samurai Master Class”, p.13, Lulu.com
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Sun Tzu

Inspirational Life, Lying, War
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

Sun Tzu

Art, War, Fighting

Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.61, GENERAL PRESS
To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

Sun Tzu

Fighting, Skills, Enemy
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

Sun Tzu

Clever, War, Fighting

Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.19, Xist Publishing
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Sun Tzu

Art Of War, Fighting, Wish

Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.9, GENERAL PRESS
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Peace, War, Fighting

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Sun Tzu

Strength, Art, Strong

Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.

Sun Tzu

Fighting, Deception, Enemy
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Sun Tzu

Leadership, Business, War

"The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Sun Tzu

Art, War, Fighting

Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.26, Xist Publishing
Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Sun Tzu

Art, War, Fighting

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

Sun Tzu

Art, Military, War

Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

Sun Tzu

Fighting, Army, Enemy

Tzu Sun (1994). “The Art of War”, p.135, Basic Books
If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

Sun Tzu

Art, Fighting, Battle
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Sun Tzu

War, Fighting, Army

Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Sun Tzu

War, Fighting, Victory

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com
Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

Sun Tzu

Art, Military, War

Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.52, Youcanprint
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Sun Tzu

War, Moving, Fighting

Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.61, GENERAL PRESS
In desperate position, you must fight.

Sun Tzu

Fighting, Desperate, Position

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.19, Lulu.com
Know the enemy and know yourself.

Sun Tzu

Fear, Military, War

The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.

Sun Tzu

War, Military, Army

Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.

Sun Tzu

Crush, War, Believe

Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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Born: 544 BC
Died: 496 BC
Occupation: Strategist
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