Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[osopardo]

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"Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, 'Where the heck is the ceiling?'" - Anon.

"If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You." - Anon.

Whether they are stepping stones or stumbling blocks, its all in your perspective. - Anon.

Happiness is a means of travel, not a destination. - Anon.

[Tom Yum]

Quotes that make you go hmmmmm....

see my signature..

[_Peter_]

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window"- unknown

[chalambok]

Test Respect For Diversity part 6

"Men should be either caressed or exterminated, because they can avenge light injuries, but not severe ones. The damage done to a man should be such that there is no fear of revenge." - Machiavelli

[chalambok]

Tired of Armchair Warriors

"When I die I'll go to heaven cause I've spent my time in hell." - every REMF there ever was, is or will ever be

[chalambok]

I'm about empty

"The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry." - Bill Mauldin

"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting." - Tom Stoppard

[chalambok]

"Training is everything." - Mark Twain

[BriK]

Success is not something to wait for; it’s something to work for.

[Karate-ka19]

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." Muhammad Ali

"I'm so fast, last night I turned out the lights and was in bed before it got dark." Muhammad Ali

[chalambok]

The Warrior Heart

"The heart is crying, but the lips are smiling." - Perla Ovitz, actress, dwarf, survivor of the concentration camp Auschwitz

[EmptyneSs]

"Your Flesh is soft
My fists are invincible
Realize your agony "


"My best just wasnt good enough"

[Hraka]

"Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character."
Henry Rollins

[HtTKar]

"I fancy that things to be done will not wait for the good time of the doer. Rather the doer must wait on the opportunity for action, and not leave the doing of it for his idle moments"
--Socrates.

"But when not only the lower and working classes in a city, but even those who have pretensions to a liberal education, require skilled doctors and lawyers, is not that the strongest possible proof that a vicious and ugly system of education rules there? Does it not seem disgraceful, and a sure sign of lack of culture, that they should be compelled to resort to justice which they get from others whom they make their masters and judges, and that they should not rely on their own resources."
--Socrates

“Man supports himself only on that which resists.
So Earth must resist man else he existeth not.”
--Thoth

[HtTKar]

One of my favorites.

"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach."
--Machiavelli

"Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another."
--Karl Marx

[HtTKar]

"For those who died ignominiously and those who died gloriously, the pain when they handed their heads to the enemy was no different….Contemplate this point well, and strive to ponder it and practice it day and night. "
--Taira Shigesuke