the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
– Sun Tzu
Related Quotes:
- The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. – Sun Tzu
- To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. – Sun Tzu
- He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. – Sun Tzu
- Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler
- People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. – Anthony de Mello
- Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides. – Aleksandra Layland
- Atreyu was fighting not for himself, but for his friend, whom he was trying to save by defeating him. – Michael Ende
- Atreyu was fighting not for himself, but for his friend, whom he was trying to save by defeating him. – Michael Ende
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
- To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
- The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. – Sun Tzu
- Be where your enemy is not. – Sun Tzu
- When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away… – Sun Tzu
- Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands. – Sun Tzu
- Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. – Sun Tzu
- Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious – Sun Tzu
- mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy – Sun Tzu
- Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose. – Sun Tzu
- To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy’s numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. – Sun Tzu
- Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. – Sun Tzu
- In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity – Sun Tzu
- Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. – Sun Tzu
- The most dangerous enemy is that enemy when your ally becomes enemy – Kamaran Ihsan Salih
- …he didn’t know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a ????erfly, or a ????erfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. – Inio Asano
- We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
- Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success. – Stephen Richards
- I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you’re stronger than you are. – K Weikel
- Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain. – Priyavrat Thareja
- But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first. – Nicholas D Kristof
- The old world told men merely about to live and to die.Today men think about defeating death and resurrection. – Toba Beta
- The civil involvement of the church is a spiritual tactic aim at defeating the forces of darkness. – Sunday Adelaja
- Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative. – Seth Adam Smith
- Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left. – Chris Bradford
- Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. – Sun Tzu
- One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all. – Sun Tzu
- Great results, can be achieved with small forces. – Sun Tzu
- When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward. – Sun Tzu
- if you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner – Sun Tzu
- Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground. – Sun Tzu