兵は拙速を聞くも、未だ巧久を睹ざるなり。

All warfare is based on deception.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

-- Takeda Shingen

The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

-- Tōgō Heihachirō

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

-- Carl von Clausewitz

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

-- Erwin Rommel

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle.

-- Alexander Suvorov

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

-- Epaminondas