Miyamoto Musashi

"Never depart from the way of martial arts."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday, tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"Strategy inadequately learned is the cause of serious wounds."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."

- Miyamoto Musashi

""You can only fight the way you practice.""

- Miyamoto Musashi

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing that the enemy does not expect."

- Miyamoto Musashi

""The way is in training.""

- Miyamoto Musashi

"You can only fight the way you practice."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The mountain-sea spirit that it is bad to repeat the same thing several times when fighting the enemy. There may be no help but to do something twice, but do not try it a third time. If you once make an attack and fail, there is little chance of success if you use the same approach again. If you attempt a technique that you have previously tried unsuccessfully and fail yet again, then you must change your attacking method."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"If you think only of hitting, springing, striking, or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."

- Miyamoto Musashi