Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

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

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

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

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen

The whole art of war consists of getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

Audacity, audacity, always audacity!

-- The Prussian king whose oblique order and disciplined army made a small northern kingdom into a European great power