Miyamoto Musashi Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Miyamoto Musashi on Wise Famous Quotes.
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.
If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.
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.
The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.
Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss.
A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.
If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.
In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.
The essential is to think that anything you are doing has to become the occasion for slashing. You must examine this well.
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life
This Fudo Myo-o, whose name means "Immovable Wisdom King," is represented with a sword to cut through our ignorance and a rope to bind up our emotions
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.