Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Patience is the foundation of lasting peace. Consider anger your enemy.

If you regard discomfort as a normal condition, you will not be dissatisfied.

It is precisely in failure that we find the seeds of the next success.

-- Takamine Jōkichi

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

-- Hōjō Sōun

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- Zhuge Liang

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- Scipio Africanus

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- Edward, the Black Prince

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

-- Joan of Arc