Martial Arts Inspirational Quotes

• Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Effectiveness, Water, Cracks

  "Fear Vs. Faith". Book by Wade Rich, 2012.

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• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Failure, Adversity

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Sports, Spiritual

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• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Confidence

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• Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

  Muhammad Ali

  Skills, Boxing, Champion

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2011

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Take what's useful, discard what is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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• Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Teacher

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.5, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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

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• I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Past, Treasure

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• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Memories

  "Fictional character: Bruce Lee". "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

  Bruce Lee

  Artist, Doe, Mastery

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

  Mencius

  Warrior, Samurai, Martial Arts

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• What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

  Bruce Lee

  Character, Thinking, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Empty Mind, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

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• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

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• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Expression

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• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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