Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[A-Zo]

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

[Ghost]

LOL why was mine deleted, i thought it was so well known to not require me stating the author.
Undelete please.

if you understand everything, you must be misinformed

[Ghost]

"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."

Sometimes paying attention to the small things can have a difference on the bigger things and help you see the bigger picture.

[jules]

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

[chalambok]

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

[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

[garuda]

"Win First, Fight Later" the book of Hagakure

[gregimotis]

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


Mark Twain

[fire cobra]

"Dont fight yourself."

My friend Pimnipa.

[chalambok]

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

[chalambok]

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

[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.

[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

[gregimotis]

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


Bernadette Devlin