Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[Garland]

It was, but it's a little known fact that people called him Albert Einstein. It was nickname he got after he invented the telephone, flew a kite with a brass key on it in a lighting storm, and got hit on the head with an apple and came up with the law of gravity.

Learn something new every day...

Brewer! Making fun of 13 year old little girls? tsk tsk...

[Aikido_Girl918]

and incase that made no sense to you, it means that if you critisize someone, all you are doing is giving them another reason to persevere, because it gives them another reason to prove themselves

[Aikido_Girl918]

"The best inspiration is to critisize" -me

[pittbulldog]

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. -Anthony Robbins

Repetition is the mother of all skill. -Anthony Robbins

[Aikido_Girl918]

okay, well, that's not even my fave quote anyway, i just thought it'd be good to put here

[Aikido_Girl918]

I think that was Thomas Edison.

oopsie, fogive me, i'm only 13, and i get all of them mixed up

[pittbulldog]

Albert Einstine (sp?) tried 200 times before he figured out the correct way to make a lightbulb. when asked about it he said: "I didn't fail, I just figured out 200 ways how not to make a lightbulb"

I think that was Thomas Edison.

[Aikido_Girl918]

my faves

first man asks: "One step short of crazy what do you get?"

second man answers: "uhh, obsessed?"

first man says: "Passionate!" - taken from movie National Treasure



"The only stupid question is the one you never ask" -unknown



Albert Einstine (sp?) tried 200 times before he figured out the correct way to make a lightbulb. when asked about it he said: "I didn't fail, I just figured out 200 ways how not to make a lightbulb"



"You are only a true Martial Artist when you see the Martial Arts as a way of life" -me


"When one human being is not worth finding, we as human beings have lost" -original author unknown, but I did alter it a bit

-Fanci

oh yeah and my favorites (not exactly quotes to live by, but funny)

"That's called duh" -Bud Kasavage (my Aikido instructor)

"Here's your sign" -Bill Engvall

"What an idiot" -Hermione Granger

[Blue Wave Gym]

"you're a good kicker just go out there and kick the shit out of him"
My kickboxing instructor

[Tant01]

I did a google search on the speed is fine quote, and it came up 50/50. So, I went back and removed the author of the quote.

Should have left it... I've heard him say that on his hunting show in refrence to the hype about bullet velocity? Speed is fine but shot placement is critical... When killing critters. Earp was talking about killing folks that were shooting at ya.

[pittbulldog]

I did a google search on the speed is fine quote, and it came up 50/50. So, I went back and removed the author of the quote.

[Tant01]

I thought the "speed is fine..." quote was originally Wyatt Earp.

The old saying attributed to Earp goes: "Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You have to learn to take your time ... in a hurry"

[Garland]

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. -- Mark Twain

yeahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Twain was a tough.

[pittbulldog]

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - General George Washington

Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action - Thomas Mann

Civilize the mind but make savage the body - Chairman Mao

***We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level
of our training *** Read this one and understand it

Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. -- Deng Ming-Dao

The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle. - Motto of Navy Seals

Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice.
- Samurai maxim

The martial arts are like hot water. If you don't keep adding heat it will soon cool.

If you think your good enough, you've just started your decline.

Speed is fine but accuracy is final. Bill Jordan and Wyatt Earp

*This is one of my favorite quotes of all time*

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. -- Mark Twain

And last but not least, a quote dedicated to all of our military personel, and my brothers and sisters in law enforcement:

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men (and women) stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. -- George Orwell

[Kotaro]

"I'm Rick James bitch." -Rick James