Martial Artist Quotes

“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.”

“The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”

“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled”

“We do not become. We simply are.”

“Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”

“The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.”

“A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.”

“A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.”

“The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.”

“‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.”

“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.”

“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”

“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”

“Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.”

“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere”

“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

“You need emotional content.”

“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

“There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.”

“To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.”

“Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.”

“Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain”