Miyamoto Musashi Quotes

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• To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

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  Fighting, Winning, Battle

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  Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

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  Lying, Want, Truth Is

  D. E. Tarver, Musashi Miyamoto (2004). “The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi”, p.40, iUniverse

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  It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

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  Art, May, Firsts

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

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  Inspirational, Mountain, Path

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• Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

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  Negativity, Over You, Opponents

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• The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Yesterday

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  Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

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  Fluidity, Way, Fixation

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

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  Motivational, Art, Doubt

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  Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

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  Winning, Self, Skills

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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  The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Body, Path

  D. E. Tarver, Musashi Miyamoto (2004). “The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi”, p.12, iUniverse

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• A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.

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  Art, Men, Looks

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• In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

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  Motivational, Heart, Advantage

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• If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

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  Way, Way Of The Warrior, Knows

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

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  Thinking, Deep Thought, World

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• Accept everything just the way it is.

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  Way, Accepting

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• True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.

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  Warrior, Training, Fierce

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• Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

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  Steps, Miles, Walks

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

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  Thinking, Goal, Waste

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• There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• Do nothing which is of no use.

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  Life, Use, Martial Arts

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.31, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

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  Mind, Body

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• Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

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  Sleep, Men, Jail

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• The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win

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  Fighting, Warrior, Winning

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• All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them

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  Thinking, Men, Self

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• from one thing, know ten thousand things

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  Thousand, Knows, One Thing

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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