Martial Artist Quotes

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.”

“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.”

“when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

“Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.”

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“The unconditioned mind intuits truth.”

“In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?”

“Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.”

“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”

“People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.”

“If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.”

“A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.”

“You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.”

“The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.”

“I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.”

“Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”

“There are too many stars and too few actors.”

“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”

“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.”

“Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

“Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.”

“I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.”

“All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.”