Sun Tzu Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Extraordinary Moments

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, 6th Century BC.

• Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

  Sun Tzu

  Rivers, Long, Waiting

• He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Leadership, Art

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter III), 2003.

• He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Winning, Waiting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

• Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.52, Youcanprint

• Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Waiting, Enemy

• The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol nor in the cold of winter don thick clothing. In dangerous places he must dismount and walk. He waits until the army's wells have been dug and only then drinks; until the army's food is cooked before he eats; until the army's fortifications have been completed, to shelter himself.

  Sun Tzu

  Summer, Art, War

• With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Waiting

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

• First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability.

  Sun Tzu

  Waiting, Enemy, Firsts

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