Martial Artist Quotes

“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”

“The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.”

“The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.”

“I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.”

“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”

“You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.”

“Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.”

“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!”

“Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.”

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.”

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.”

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”

“Pain is weakness leaving your body.”

“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”

“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”

“False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.”

“Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort ofindomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there isno end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process,an ever-renewing process.”

“To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.”

“To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.”

“When you freely express, you are the total style.”

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

“If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.”

“Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.”