Uesugi Kenshin

Uesugi Kenshin 上杉 謙信 (18 February 1530 – 19 April 1578) was a samurai warlord who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan.

Quotes

 * Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
 * Quoted in Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro; Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture (1970); p. 188
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 * Cited in (Review of several books on the samurai of Japan.)
 * Alternative: "Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live."