Miyamoto Musashi Warrior Quotations

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior.

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

...most warriors only perform tricks. The way of the warrior is filled with soul and feeling

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.