Martial arts quotes

Quotations with their sources, from Wikiquote and from public-domain translations of the Chinese classics.

Topics

• Death (11)
• Defeat and losing (9)
• Fighting (6)
• Knowledge and learning (9)
• Leaders and rulers (18)
• Nature and heaven (14)
• Strength (8)
• Teachers and teaching (12)
• The mind (11)
• Victory and winning (6)
• Virtue and goodness (13)
• War and strategy (7)
• Weakness and softness (7)
• Wisdom (10)

Authors: C

• Confucius (120)

Authors: M

• Mencius (56)

Authors: S

• Sun Tzu (120)

See also

• Chinese classics
• Fighters
• Martial arts films

Data: Wikiquote (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0); English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.