Courage Quotes

"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him."

- Sun Tzu

"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

- Sun Tzu

"The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers."

- Sun Tzu

"The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals."

- Sun Tzu

"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended."

- Sun Tzu

"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."

- Sun Tzu

"Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us."

- Sun Tzu

"Knowing the place and the time of the coming battle, we may concentrate from the greatest distances in order to fight."

- Sun Tzu

"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them."

- Sun Tzu

"Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient."

- Sun Tzu

"To take a long and circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation."

- Sun Tzu

"Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest."

- Sun Tzu

"In raiding and plundering be like fire, in immovability like a mountain."

- Sun Tzu

"Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety."

- Sun Tzu

"Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground."

- Sun Tzu

"Walk in the path defined by rule, and accommodate yourself to the enemy until you can fight a decisive battle."

- Sun Tzu

"At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you."

- Sun Tzu

"If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are."

- Sun Tzu

"If you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete."

- Sun Tzu

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

- Sun Tzu

"The great object is that every man be armed."

- Patrick Henry

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

- Albert Einstein

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

- Isaac Asimov

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good man do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

"Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared."

- Sun Tzu

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better; the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

"When the Sun is shining, I can do anything. No mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph