Martial Arts Quotations: Set 1
TKD just is Shotokan with with serial numbers filed off and aggressive marketing.
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The first five black belt ranks come from what you've gotten out of the system, the next ranks come from what you've given back.
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The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people may hold it.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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She who loses money, loses much; She who loses a friend, loses more; She who loses faith, loses all.
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
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Anger is only one letter short of danger.
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Silence. Once you say the word, it no longer exists.
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Beware the fury of a patient man. -Jake (The Snake) Roberts, professional wrestler
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Take integrity over popularity and you'll always be cool. - Carlos Santana
Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." - Oprah Winfrey
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If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. - Paul Newman
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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. - Warren Buffet
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A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. -Samurai Maxim
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. -Lao-Tzu
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Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. -Books of Han Dynasty
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When you seek it, you cannot find it. -Zen Riddle
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Life like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
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For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the un-peaceful, how can there be happiness? - Bhagavad Gita
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Power of mind is infinite, while brawn is limited. -Koichi Tohei
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him. -Bruce Lee
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of master through adaptation. -Lao-Tzu
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Control your emotion or it will control you. -Chinese adage
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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. -Samurai maxim
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I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. -Jim Lau
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You may train for a long, long, 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
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Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you speak to them.
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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. -Sun Tzu
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In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent’s skin. If you don’t understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time. -Tsutomu Oshima
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There is a sequence of phases in developing the practice of one’s art. One begins by self-consciously practicing a certain technique. One proceeds slowly, deliberately, reflectively; but one keeps on practicing until the technique becomes internalized and one is no longer self-conscious when executing it. After a set of techniques has been thoroughly internalized, one begins to grasp the principles behind them. And finally, when one has understood and internalized the basic principles, one no longer responds mechanically to a given attack, but begins to use the art creatively and in a manner whereby one’s individual style and insights can find expression. -Miyamoto Musashi
Practicing a thousand days is said to be a discipline, and practicing ten thousand days is said to be refining. -Miyamoto Mussashi
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A rich man, fond of felines, asked a famous Zen ink painter to draw him a cat. The master agreed and asked the man to come back in three months. When the man returned, he was put off, again and again, until a year had passed. Finally, at the man's request, the master drew out a brush, and , with grace and ease, in a single fluid motion, drew a picture of a cat - the most marvelous image the man had ever seen. He was astonished; then he grew angry. "That drawing took you only thirty seconds! Why did you make me wait a year?" he demanded. Without a word, the master opened up a cabinet, and out fell thousands of drawings - of cats. -Zen story
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A Winner’s Creed
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,
it’s almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost;
For out in the world we find success begins with a person’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster hand.
But sooner or later, the person who wins is the one who thinks
"I Can".
-Anonymous
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If the spirit of humility, an intrinsic element of Bushido, is removed from the teaching of classical martial studies the lack of this important virtue makes of such studies mere systems of violence. -Risuke Otake
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape 100 days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker Washington
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Promises are like babies—easy to make, but tough to deliver.
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No matter what goes wrong, there's always someone who knew it would.
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If something happens to you, it has previously happened to all your friends.
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You're never a loser until you quit trying. -Mike Ditka
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but you didn't. - Erica Jong
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self-discipline. -Walter Kiechel
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Pride is tasteless, colorless, and size less. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. -August Black
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Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.
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You know you're old when you have lost all your marvels. -Merry Browne
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Kindness consists of loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert
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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. - Merry Browne
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. -Francis Bacon
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Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything. -Jean-Louis Etienne
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Character is much easier kept then recovered. -Thomas Paine
The older back belts get, the greater they were.
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Swing hard in case they throw the ball where you are swinging. -Duke Snider
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? -Frank Scully
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There are no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. -Colin Powell
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There are a lot of black belts that who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -Publilius Syrus
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Few wishes come true by themselves. -June Smith
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One thing about experience is that when you don't have very much you're apt to get a lot. -Franklin Jones
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need. -Malcolm Forbes
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Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. -Chinese proverb
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. -Bill Copeland
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -Anne Morrow Lindberg
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Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. -Frank Tyger
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The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good. -Sid Archer
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before and wiser than the one that comes after. -George Orwell
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You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it. -Lorene Workman
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The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices. -Clint Eastwood
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No man was ever wise by chance. -Seneca
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When you betray someone else, you often betray yourself. -Isaac Singer
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. -O. A. Battista
We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't. -Frank Clark
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Only when a tree has fallen can your take the measure if it. It is the same with a man. -Anne Morrow Lindberg
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -Marquis de la Grange
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Habit if not resisted, soon become necessity. -St. Augustine
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectation. -Patricia Neal
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Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind. -Andy Sklivis
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After a certain number of years, out faces become out biographies. -Cynthia Ozick
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry Thoreau
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To profit from good advice require more wisdom than to give it. -John Collins
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Measure wealth not by the thing you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
It is hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. -Marcel Proust
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Each of use is the accumulation of our memories -Alan McGinnis
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream -Larry Niven
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Make no judgments if you have no compassion. -Anne McCaffrey
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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failure. -Gene Brown
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When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. -George Fisher
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Be bold in what you stand for and careful in what you fall for. -Ruth Boorstin
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We are tomorrow's past. -Mary Webb
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden
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A have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat. -David Berry
Discipline is remembering what you want. -David Campbell
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Pessimism never won any battle. -Dwight Eisenhower
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. -Tommy Lasorda
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. -Barry Goldwater
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Bevery Sills
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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
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We work to become, not to acquire. -Elbert Hubbard
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -Dan Stanford
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In the race to quality, there is no finish line. -David Kearns
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We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. -Max De Pree
Time as a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. -Richard Sapir
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I make the most of what goes and the least of all that goes. -Sara Teasdale
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. -Oprah Winfrey
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There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. -Lillian Watson
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The best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it. -Libbie Fudim
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Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain
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You never know when you are making a memory. -Rickie Lee Jones
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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -Mildred Narthel
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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in out imagination. -Steve Allen
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Goals determine what you are going to be. -Julius Erving