Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[chalambok]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[Ghost]

This is a cool thread. this one must have been done before here, probably more than once but im not going to search for it. so if youve seen it before, tough lol your going to see it again.

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." vince lombardi

worth repeating i expect in any case

[chalambok]

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mohatma Gandhi

[chalambok]

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - H L Mencken

[gregimotis]

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.


Bernadette Devlin

[Britt]

"The other side of it is, if you go into an art where you’re learning to kill – something like judo where you learn strangulation - your confidence normally goes to a level where you don’t want to be in fights. And you’re so confident that you don’t see people as worthy opponents, so you become invisible to threats. That’s the art of invisibility. Once you’ve developed the ability to kill people, you become ashamed of it, and you think, ‘Well, I don’t want to kill people, I don’t want to hurt people, I don’t want to become known as someone who is good at hurting people.’ So you let go of that need to be able to hurt others.

"The people who need to be able to do it are the ones who are not secure in what they’ve got. And I think they’re the ones who need to go back into the forge and once you go through the forge, and temper the blade, you come out the other side and you don’t want to hurt anybody. You just want to be gentle and give to other people. Ultimately you realize this is a reciprocal universe and what we give out is what comes back."

- Geoff Thompson

[Tom Yum]

"The other side of it is, if you go into an art where you’re learning to kill – something like judo where you learn strangulation - your confidence normally goes to a level where you don’t want to be in fights. And you’re so confident that you don’t see people as worthy opponents, so you become invisible to threats. That’s the art of invisibility. Once you’ve developed the ability to kill people, you become ashamed of it, and you think, ‘Well, I don’t want to kill people, I don’t want to hurt people, I don’t want to become known as someone who is good at hurting people.’ So you let go of that need to be able to hurt others.

"The people who need to be able to do it are the ones who are not secure in what they’ve got. And I think they’re the ones who need to go back into the forge and once you go through the forge, and temper the blade, you come out the other side and you don’t want to hurt anybody. You just want to be gentle and give to other people. Ultimately you realize this is a reciprocal universe and what we give out is what comes back."

- Geoff Thompson

Bravo.

I'm far from an effective martial artist, but so many people in this world mistake kindness for weakness, some of them bad people with bad intentions - which brings you full circle to the fighting thing.

[chalambok]

"All blame is a waste of time." - Casey Stengel

[chalambok]

"Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit." - Bruce Lee

[fire cobra]

"Dont fight yourself."

My friend Pimnipa.

[gregimotis]

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.


Mark Twain

[garuda]

"Win First, Fight Later" the book of Hagakure

[chalambok]

"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life." - Mahatma Gandhi

[chalambok]

"Look back with pride not sorrow." - Stephanie Shughart (wife of SFC Randy Shughart, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor for actions in Somalia)

[jules]

Oh, you're mad cus i'm styling on you.