One day of virtuous action is worth a month of idleness.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

I fight my enemies with swords, not with salt.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

The Empire's fate depends on this battle. Let every man do his utmost duty.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

Then we shall fight in the shade.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

God and my right.

-- The Lionheart — England's warrior-king who spent his reign on crusade and battlefield rather than in governance