Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[chalambok]

"Love is a promise delivered already broken." - Steve Martin

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." - Carl Jung

[chalambok]

now to add some context

While myself, Mike Delio, Troy Ninedorf and Rick Sollo were showing each other the knives we were carrying to dinner off the army post in Phitsanulok, I believe; Ajarn Samai Masamarn looked in the door, laughed, and said "The tiger carries his knives in his hands!" Rick had a ballisong, Troy I think also, Mike had a switchblade he had bought in Bangkok and I my push-knife.

[chalambok]

"Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

[eXcessiveForce]

"One more Time" One of my instructors

"put your clothes and your weapons where you can easily find them in the dark" mark Twain

"get your first shot off quick, this distracts your opponent just long enough to make your second shot perfect" mark Twain

"never frighten a little man, he'll Kill you" Mark Twain

"Girl with a lot in front and little behind has assured future" Chinese proverd quoted by malcome Forbes

"Girl who ride bike peddle ass around" Malcome Forbes

"In god we trust, everyone else we monitor" Moto a squardron of U.S. spy planes.

let them hate, so long as they fear-- unknown

Close only counts in horseshoes, handgranades and tactical nukes.

"I drank what?" socrates

"don't be modest, your not that great" unknown

"I have something to say, it's better to burn out than to fade away" Highlander

"there is not problem in this universe to great that cannot be solved with a suitable application of high explosives." bumpersticker

"Peace through superior Firepower" moto of the colonial marines

"fight now hurt later"

"don't block with your face"


When one of my students was kicked in the groin hard enough to break his cup. He lay on the floor and one of the female high ranks walked over and said "are you gonna live" I asked "do you want to?"

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in groups.

"Never give a sucker an even break"

[street]

"better late than never" dont know


"better to have 2 birds in hand than 1000 flying" chinese proberb

"who laghs last laghs louder" dont know


"a rolling rock gathers less moss than a sitting one" chinese proberb

"the higher the bamboo the more it leans" chineese proberb

[Cain]

the wise norseman comes in

"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."

[Cain]

the wise norseman II

"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquet. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you."


"Take what pleasures you may in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."


"There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you."



"I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it."


"Courageous people do not surrender hope."


"I view my long road as a search for truth: truth in my own heart, in the world around me, and in the larger purpose of existence. How does one define good and evil?"


"It is a defeat of the spirit to learn that one's own arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights of personal triumph, but the wind is stronger and the footing tentative. Farther then, is the fall."

[ghostwolf0]

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Stormin Norman Schwartzkoph (?)

[ghostwolf0]

Heres another favorite

If you find yourself in a fair fight.....your tactics suck!

And this one

the only fair fight is the one you are winning

[Tory]

Murphy's #1 rule:

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, at the most in-oportune time"

[ceasarx]

If winning isnt everthing than why keep score

Man who goes to bed with itchy buthole wake up with crappy finger

The only hope one can have is that someday it will all be over

You can not change yesterday and you cannot see tommoro so all we can do is live in the now

[goatnipples2002]

These are from experience no books or anything only lots of fights.

You begin to understand after 50 or so fights. Real men go bare knuckle.

[eighteenvisions]

when the water rises the fish eat the ants.............when the water lowers the ants eat the fish............. Hindu Proverb

[eighteenvisions]

THOUGHTS WITHOUT WORDS

having awarness but no true sense of self
you find yourself enslaved in chains of earthly wealth
the unending chatter that plagues the mind
chaos reins in an untamed mind
still question all i know advancing forward
this fallacy i have disowned
you must quench the yearning and false desire
only balance will elevate you higher
you must train the body and the mind to serve
envisioning thoughts without words
chaos reigns in an untamed mind
encaged in a world that fear creates
you must release yourself and liberate
i am seeking the way.................

SHADOW FALL go buy the cd

[chalambok]

"An awful lot of life can be missed just waiting for the right time." - Doc on Gunsmoke