I Am Not Bound To Win But I Am Bound To Be True I

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.