Martial Arts Quotes - Page 25

• Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Fighting, Pride

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Flower, Roots

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

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• Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

  Mary Hart

  Art, Office, Boxes

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• Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Time Goes By, Gym

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• Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

  Joe Hyams

  Spiritual, Art, Years

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam

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• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  Caity Lotz

  Sports, Art, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.

  Bas Rutten

  Motivational, Fighting, Games

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• To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Artist, Quality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Deception

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Wall, Perfect, Pushing

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• I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and ballet, and I'm very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.

  Anna Paquin

  Sports, Art, Fun

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• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  Bruce Lee

  Truth, Giving, Choices

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

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• I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

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• The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Mastery, Emptiness

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

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

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Powerful, Peaceful

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

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• When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Alive, Feels

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• Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Athletic

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• In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Past, Years, Skills

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• Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teaching, Warrior, Progress

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.170, Shambhala Publications

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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, Danger

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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