Favourite Quotations for MAs?

[pesilat]

I have a bunch of them listed at http://www.guild-hall.com/quotes.php

However, among my favorites are:

"A black belt is just a white belt who never gave up."

All men are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them. -- Miyamoto Musashi

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -- H. Jackson Browne

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. -- Samuel Johnson

"If I listen, I have the advantage. If I speak, others have it."

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. -- Martin H. Fischer

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. -- Indira Gandhi

"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. -- James Corbett (Boxer)

Never mistake motion for action. -- Ernest Hemingway


And that really just scratches the surface

Mike

 

[Disco]

TRAIN NOT TO BECOME A STATISTIC......

 

[Mark L]

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
The Sorbonne, 1910.

 

[FLY]

Here are a few of my favourites:

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

- SAMURAI MAXIM

The mind should be nowhere in particular.

- TAKUAN

You may train for a long, ling time, but if you merely move your hands and
feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very
different from learning to dance. You will never have reached the heart of
the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.

- GICHIN FUNAKOSHI

FLY.
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[old_sempai]

"Bully: for you old boy......... as TR would say.......

 

[Zujitsuka]

"Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death." - Lao-tsu

"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation." - Lao-tsu

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee." - Bruce Lee

Peace & blessings,

 

[jdmills]

There are three types of people:

Those that make it happen, those that let it happen, and those that ask "what happened?".

- Edmund K. Parker

 

[Mormegil]

"You karate do, yes. OK. You karate do, no. OK. You karate do, guess so. Squish, just like grape!"
-Mr. Miyagi

Of course this works better when preceded with the story of the grape picking one side of the street (left, right, or middle).


Another form may be: "Do, or do not. There is no try."
-Master Yoda

 

[Cryozombie]

"KEEP GOING" --Masaaki Hatsumi, 34th Grandmaster of Togakure Ryu Ninpo Taijutsu

"One who is a Warrior, must before all things keep constantly in mind by day or by night the fact that he has to Die." -- Daidoji Yuzan, The Code of the Samurai

 

[pesilat]

"A warrior may choose pacifism. All others are condemned to it." - Bob Orlando

Mike

 

[RyuShiKan]

Originally posted by pesilat
"A warrior may choose pacifism. All others are condemned to it." - Bob Orlando

Mike

Isn't he related to Tony Orlando?

 

[pesilat]

Originally posted by RyuShiKan
Isn't he related to Tony Orlando?

Umm ... not that I'm aware of

Bob's a martial artist in the Denver area of Colorado and has written a couple of books and done a video or two.

Mike

 

[Laevolus]

Mine's so obvious and cliched I'm almost afraid to add it, but it's always inspires me.

Bruce Lee (told you it was cliched) and his famous water speech.

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water.
Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup,
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle,
You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can *flow* or it can *crash*!
Be water, my friend."

Gotta love it though

 

[Eggman]

"99% of all failures come from people who are in the habit of making excuses!" George Washington Carver

 

[jdmills]

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you are probably right."

 

[cali_tkdbruin]

When I first began training in the MAs on the road to Black Belt I kept hearing this one:

"The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step."

 

[cali_tkdbruin]

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.” – Bruce Lee

“The human mind can subjugate anything—even real pain.” – Bruce Lee

“To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve—as if you might die in the next instant.” – Taisen Deshimaru

 

[cali_tkdbruin]

Originally posted by Master of Blades


"Look mate I can slit your throat with a credit card! That tell you how dangerous I am?"

Oh Yeah!! I like this one.
LOL, I have just gotta learn that credit card technique... :rofl:

 

[Kirk]

"Do it 1000 times slow before you do it 1 time fast" -Huk Planas

"Very good .. but brick no hit back" - Bolo Yeung in the movie
Bloodsport

 

[cali_tkdbruin]

Here's more for the boxing set:

"A champion is someone who gets back up—even if they can't." - Jack Dempsey
"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee—your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see." - Mohammad Ali

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