Martial Artist Quotes

“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”

“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”

“People fear what they do not understand.”

“We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.”

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.”

“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”

“Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.”

“Seek freedom from the conformity of styles”

“There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.”

“There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.”

“To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.”

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”

“Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.”

“To tolerate is to insult.”

“We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

“The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?”

“To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love.”

“The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.”

“The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.”