A million hearts as one.
この毛利少輔太郎、天下を競望せず。
Military Strategists
Mōri Motonari
A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single province into western Japan's dominant power through diplomacy, espionage, and the patient cultivation of alliances (1497-1571). Mori Motonari's 'three arrows' lesson to his sons — that unity multiplies strength — became one of Japan's most famous leadership parables.
View this figure's profile
Mōri Motonari's Other Quotes
Related Quotes
He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.
-- Mōri Motonari
攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。
-- Oda Nobunaga
I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.
-- Takeda Shingen
All warfare is based on deception.
-- Sun Tzu
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
-- Sun Tzu