189 Quotes by Miyamoto Musashi

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    Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals.

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    In large-scale strategy, it is beneficial to strike at the corners of the enemy’s force, If the corners are overthrown, the spirit of the whole body will be overthrown.

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    The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men.

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    The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.

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    There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas.

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    Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things.

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    You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

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