Musashi Quotes
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Musashi Quotes & Sayings
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A warrior has no confusion in his mind ... This is true emptiness.
— Miyamoto Musashi
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
— Miyamoto Musashi
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
— Miyamoto Musashi
To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy
— Miyamoto Musashi
In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
— Miyamoto Musashi
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas
— Miyamoto Musashi
True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.
— Miyamoto Musashi
from one thing, know ten thousand things
— Miyamoto Musashi
The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ...
— Miyamoto Musashi
Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.
— Miyamoto Musashi
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet
— Miyamoto Musashi
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Become acquainted with every art.
— Miyamoto Musashi
As you get the rhythm you discern how to win.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The way is in training.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do nothing which is of no use
— Miyamoto Musashi
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them
— Miyamoto Musashi
Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Never stray from the Way.
— Miyamoto Musashi
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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
— Miyamoto Musashi
Most warriors only perform tricks. The way of the warrior is filled with soul and feeling
— Miyamoto Musashi
The Way is in training ... Do nothing which is not of value.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do not regret what you have done
— Miyamoto Musashi
When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
— Miyamoto Musashi
One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do nothing that is of no use
— Miyamoto Musashi
To know ten thousand things, know one well
— Miyamoto Musashi
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Though you give up your life, do not give up your honor.
— Miyamoto Musashi
A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals
— Miyamoto Musashi
Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Pay attention even to life's trifles.
— Miyamoto Musashi
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
— Miyamoto Musashi
When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do not act following customary beliefs.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
— Miyamoto Musashi
You can only fight the way you practice
— Miyamoto Musashi
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The sword has to be more than a simple weapon; it has to be an answer to life's questions.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body
— Miyamoto Musashi
Too much is the same as not enough.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you wish to control others you must first control yourself
— Miyamoto Musashi
In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win
— Miyamoto Musashi
The essential is to think that anything you are doing has to become the occasion for slashing. You must examine this well.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Do not let your opponent see your spirit
— Miyamoto Musashi
Know your enemy, know his sword.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you
— Miyamoto Musashi
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
— Miyamoto Musashi
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Immature strategy is the cause of grief".
— Miyamoto Musashi
They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.
— Miyamoto Musashi
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
— Miyamoto Musashi
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
— Miyamoto Musashi
In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.
— Miyamoto Musashi
There is even rhythm in being empty.
— Miyamoto Musashi
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
— Miyamoto Musashi
You're safer out in the open than you are crouching in the woodshed listening for footsteps and going crazy.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
— Miyamoto Musashi
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
— Miyamoto Musashi
As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men
— Miyamoto Musashi
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.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable.
— Miyamoto Musashi
By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.
— Miyamoto Musashi
