自分より強い相手にぶつかって、初めて自分の弱さを知る

A person's worth is determined by how they conduct themselves in defeat.

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

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

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

兵無常勢、水無常形。能因敵変化而取勝者、謂之神。

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

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

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

Mountains, rivers, trees — all turned desolate. For ten miles, the wind carries the stench of a fresh battlefield.

-- The Japanese general whose siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War became synonymous with both the terrible cost of modern warfare and the samurai ideal of duty unto death

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

-- The Theban general who shattered Sparta's military supremacy at Leuctra