Miyamoto Musashi Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• 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

  Spring, Mean, Cutting

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

• 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

  Crush, Feelings, Enemy

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.57, Lulu Press, Inc

• To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy

• Know your enemy, know his sword.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Knows

• If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, Enemy, May

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.31, Bottom of the Hill

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

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Winning, Mma, Knowing

• Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Enemy, Body

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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

  War, Knowing, Appreciate

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.12, Bottom of the Hill

• The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Important, Useless

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.29, Bottom of the Hill

• To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Cutting, Two

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.23, Bottom of the Hill

• If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Ifs

• Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Attitude, Enemy, Delay

• When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Letting Go, War, Enemy

• If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Crush, Military, Enemy

• Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Cutting, Enemy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

• 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

  Enemy, Able, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.29, Bottom of the Hill

• If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Thinking, Sea, Enemy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.35, Bottom of the Hill

• 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.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Wall, Enemy, Spirit

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.66, Lulu Press, Inc

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