Gichin Funakoshi Quotes About Karate

Quotes about: Karate

• No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Humanity, Important

• The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Lying, Character, Perfection

• Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Useless, Emergencies, Martial Arts

• The spirit of karate practice and the elements of training are applicable to each and every aspect of our daily lives.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Thinking, Everyday, Training

  "Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text".

• Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Water, Return, Heat

  Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.126, Kodansha International

• One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Pain, Attitude, Years

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.47, Kodansha International

• True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Humility, Justice, Mind

• There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, School, Men

• Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Water, Heat, Karate

• When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Thinking, Looks, Remember

• Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Character, Perfection, Faithful

• Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Lying, Way, Karate

  Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.63, Kodansha International

• There is no first strike in Karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Firsts, Martial Arts, Karate

  Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.23, Kodansha International

• Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Karate, Ends

• You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Moving, Heart, Hands

• Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Animal, Mind, Technique

• It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Men, Training, Mind

• Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Practice, Karate

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.43, Kodansha International

• The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands Karate-do is never easily drawn into a fight.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Fighting, Understanding, Use

• Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Karate, Courtesy, Ends

• It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Men, Important, Martial Arts

• Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Karate, Courtesy, Ends

• One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Strong, Males, Female

• Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Everyday, True Beauty

• Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Children, Book

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