I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

Without detachment, one cannot clarify purpose; without tranquility, one cannot reach far.

親賢臣、遠小人、此先漢所以興隆也。親小人、遠賢臣、此後漢所以傾頽也。

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

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

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

He who is ashamed of slave origins is no true warrior.

-- The Mamluk sultan who stopped the Mongol advance at Ain Jalut