A general must be cautious in five things: reason, preparation, decisiveness, discipline, and restraint.

An army's strength lies not in numbers, but in discipline.

In all the ways of war, nothing surpasses unity. He who attains unity can advance and retreat alone.

The die is cast.

-- Julius Caesar

I may lose a battle, but I shall never lose a minute.

-- Napoleon

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

-- Alexander the Great

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

-- Sun Tzu

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi