相撲は正々堂々と取るものだ

I am not yet a wooden rooster (I have not yet achieved the state of perfect inner stillness).

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

一生懸命だと知恵が出る、中途半端だと愚痴が出る、いい加減だと言い訳が出る。

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

Wisdom that comes only after hearing others' opinions is not true wisdom.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

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