You may abandon your own body ...

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
 Miyamoto Musashi

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
 George S. Patton
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
 Yagyu Munenori

Quotes from the same author

“Strategy is the craft of the warrior.”
 Miyamoto Musashi
“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”
 Miyamoto Musashi
“To hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
 Miyamoto Musashi
“The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.”
 Miyamoto Musashi
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.”
 Miyamoto Musashi