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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night,…

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” is an adversity quote by Sun Tzu.

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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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More Sun Tzu quotes

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Every battle is won before it is fought.

More Adversity quotes

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

You're an idiot. Study harder.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

There are no failures - only feedback.