Martial Arts Quotes - Page 22

• Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

  Imi Lichtenfeld

  Art, Dirty, Fighting

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• To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Temporary Defeat, Sith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.363, Tuttle Publishing

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• To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Seeing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.66, Tuttle Publishing

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• A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Art

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.16, Tuttle Publishing

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• Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Success, Faith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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• The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Cups, Emptiness

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• You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Overcoming, Opponents

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.27, Tuttle Publishing

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• The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Exercise, Endurance

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

  Muso Soseki

  Art, Confused, Ice

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• Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

  Conor McGregor

  Art, Doubt, Action

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• I always think street but train sport.

  Conor McGregor

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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• There are no shortcuts because there is no end

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Art, Shortcuts, Ends

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• Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

  Soa Palelei

  Art, Discipline, Achievement

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• The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Eye, Fighting

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• Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Triumph, Behinds

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• As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Training, Want

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• Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Vehicle, Human Potential

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• No one has the right to beat you.

  Ronda Rousey

  Art, Beats

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

  Frank Shamrock

  Art, Taken, Warrior

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• Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Overcoming, Remember

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• We are the modern day gladiators.

  Tito Ortiz

  Art, Modern, Modern Day

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• 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

  Motivational, Success, Dance

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014

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• Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Mean, Determined To Succeed

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• When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Moving, Frustration

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• The way is in training.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, Training, Way

  "The Book of Five Rings". Book by Miyamoto Musashi, 1645.

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