Martial Arts Quotations: Set 2
Storms make trees take deeper roots. -Claude McDonald
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. -Joaquin Setanti
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He who praises everybody praises nobody. -Samuel Johnson
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Don't believe that winning is everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what did you win? -Lane Kirkland
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. -Al Bernstein
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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A true friend never gets in the way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold Glasow
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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. -Wayne Lukas
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon. -Konrad Adenauer
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You can't test courage cautiously. -Annie Dillard
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -Ingrid Berman
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -Calvin Coolidge
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A half truth is usually less than half of that. -Bern Williams
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. -Louis Pasteur
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Nothing lasts forever, not even your troubles. -Arnold Glasow
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Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. -Edward Stanley
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The work praises the man. -Irish proverb
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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that open in snow. -Alice Swaim
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Even when experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. -Betrand Russell
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. -Alistair Cooke
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. -Flix Frankfurter
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. -Plato
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -Erma Brombeck
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Some folks never exaggerate, they just remember big. -Audrey Snead
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Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second guess yourself. -Tommy John
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -Henry Ford
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Every artist was first an amateur. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -Margaret Thatcher
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The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -Leo Kennedy
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Use soft words and hard arguments. -English proverb
The win to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. -Bobby Knight
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. -Edwin Land
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. -Peter Ustinov
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. -George Seaton
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Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. -Don Wilder
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. -Pam Shaw
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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. -G. K. Chesterton
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. -Paul Nitze
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People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know. -James Hind
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and pole may like it. -Sam Ewing
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -Steven Wright
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard
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What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are. -Edgar Friedenberg
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The truth will ouch. -Arnold Glasow
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Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear. -Donald Westlake.
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will not be one thing that you cannot understand. -Miyamoto Musashi
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To search for the old is to understand the new.
The old, the new. This is a matter of time.
The Way: Who will pass it on straight and well?
-Poem by Master Funakoshi
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Those who achieve the most are not the most skilled, but are those who concentrate long after other have given up. -Tsutomu Ohshima
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The secret of victory is to know both yourself and your enemy. -Azato
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To know and to act are one and the same. -Samurai maxim
Day after day train your heart out, Refining your technique: Use the One to strike the Many! That is the discipline of a Warrior. -Morihei Ueshiba
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A dead end is just a good place to turn around. -Naomi Judd
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Live every day like it's your last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right. -Ray Charles
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"Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength."
"Always look through the enemies' eyes."
"To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."
"To stand still is to regress."
"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril."
"The present is a result of the past; the future is a result of the present."
"Those who achieve the most are not the most skilled, but those who concentrate long after others have given up."
"Attainment will come when you've been strengthened through the struggle."
"If you are afraid to get wet, jump into the lake."
"Years of work may be ruined by a single moment of inattention."
"Don't accept the superficial answer. Look deeper to find the real one."
- From http://www.reddingshotokan.org/lessons.php
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Daniel: You could have killed him, couldn't you?
Mr. Miyagi: Aiy.
Daniel: Well, Why didn't you?
Mr. Miyagi:: Because Daniel, for man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death.
[Walking through the Okinawa airport, Daniel and Miyagi see a poster advertising Sato's karate school. The poster shows Sato breaking a log with his bare hands.]
Daniel: You think you could break a log like that?
Mr. Miyagi: Don't know. Never been attacked by a tree.
Daniel: If you and Sato fought, would your father be the referee?
Mr. Miyagi: No referee.
Daniel: Then how do you know who wins?
Mr. Miyagi: The one who's dead, doesn't.
Daniel-san, never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose.
"Daniel-san, it is not quantity of Karate, but quality of Karate that counts"
"Daniel-san! Daniel-san! It okay lose to opponent, must not lose to fear!"
- From The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -Napoleon
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The most important thing for an instructor is to be sincere. So if you can fake that, you will have it made.
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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. -Samurai maxim
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter
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Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. -Arron Brown
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Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you. -John McCain
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I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
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Act like you expect to get into the end zone. -Joe Paterno
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If you're going to think anyway, you might as well think big. -Donald Trump
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When the only tool you embrace is a hammer, you tend to approach every problem as if it where a nail.
Le Chatelier's Principle: If a stress is applied to a system at equilibrium, the system responds to relieve the stress.
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In nature, a fine line separates the hunter from being the hunted.
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Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. -Muhammad Ali
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There are so many things that are incredible about me. The most amazing is my humility. -Will Smith
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Inscriptions on tombstones usually end with two dates, the person's date of birth and date of death, connected by a dash. That dash represents the person's lifetime. Make the most of your dash!
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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -Ann Brashares
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Competitors who complain about the judges are like sailors who complain about the sea. There is nothing anyone can do about it.
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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. -William Safire
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Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. -Salvador Dali
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When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. - Paul Brown
The result of conformity is that everyone likes you, except yourself.
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Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise. -Dr. Phil McGraw
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The day people stop bring you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. -Colin Powell
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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion, and then slip quietly away. -Tom Brokaw
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. -Billy Joel
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Fall seven times, get up eight.
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Go placidly amid the noise & haste, & remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud & aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain & bitter; for always there will be greater & lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
-Found in Old Saint Paul’s Church (Baltimore; dated 1692)
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Humor is a rubber sword—it allows you to make a point without drawing blood -Mary Hirsch
The harder you train, the easier the fight. -Herman Suwanda
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If you face your opponent and doubt yourself—you're outnumbered. -Dan Milman
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Chance favors the prepared.
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People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than they have -Anne Tyler
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Go hard or go home.
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Know yourself and know your opponent—you will not face peril in a thousand battles. -Sun Tzu
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A champion is someone who gets back up—even if they can't. -Jack Dempsey
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Sweat in the gym; don't bleed in the streets. -Joe Frazier.
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Float like a butterfly sting like a bee—your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. -Mohamed Ali
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The human mind can subjugate anything—even real pain. -Bruce lee.
"Do all you can do; that's all you can do." - TKDTutor