Win with ability, not with numbers.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle.

Hard in training, easy in battle.

The bullet is a fool; the bayonet is a fine fellow.

信玄の兵法に、のちの勝ちを大切にするとある。それもよいが、わしは先の勝ちを大切にする。

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

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

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

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule

兵は拙速を聞くも、未だ巧久を睹ざるなり。

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

The die is cast.

-- The Roman general

God is with us! (Gott mit uns)

-- The 'Lion of the North' who revolutionized European warfare through combined-arms tactics and transformed Sweden into a continental great power during the Thirty Years' War