Miyamoto Musashi · 96 pages
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“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“from one thing, know ten thousand things”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You can only fight the way you practice”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Do not regret what you have done”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“To know ten thousand things, know one well”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“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, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“Know your enemy, know his sword.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, quote from A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Miyamoto Musashi
Born place: Mimasaka Province, Japan
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