Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Truce Diplomacy Strategy When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

Sun Tzu

Flattery Strategy Power Dynamics Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Strategy Conflict Victory The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge Self-awareness Strategy Success Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Sun Tzu

Marriage Relationship Strategy Compromise Let your wife win all the battles, and you'll win the war.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Strategy Deception Coordination Execution Initiative Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Sun Tzu

Strategy Peace Wisdom The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Competition Strategy Intensity Metaphor Victory Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

Uncertainty Parenting Strategy Risk Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Brene Brown

Readiness Preparation Strategy Resilience Security The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

Sun Tzu