Martial Arts Quotes - Page 4

• If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, If There Is A God, Giving

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• The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

  Neil Young

  Strong, Artist, Yield

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• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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• Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.

  Anko Itosu

  Art, Moving, Years

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• Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Years, Needs

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Movement, Stillness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• True victory is victory over oneself.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Victory, Oneself

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• The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Careers, Challenges

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• Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Achievement, Today

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.327, Tuttle Publishing

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• Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

  C. L. R. James

  Running, Art, Cat

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• You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Fighting, Winning

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• Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

  Motobu Choki

  Art, Self, Defense

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  There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Goal, Lines

  Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books

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• Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Moving, Mastery

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

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• The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Self

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Creating, Style

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.154, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Mastery, Patterns

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

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• Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.

  Higa Yuchoku

  Teacher, Art, Style

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• But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.

  Steve Harvey

  Art, Turns

  "Steve Harvey: I Was Homeless for Three Years" by Charlotte Triggs, people.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Remember You, Remembers You

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

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• Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

  Dan Inosanto

  Motivational, Individuality, Experience

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• Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

  Duk Sung Son

  Art, Black, Training

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• Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

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

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• To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Express Yourself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.349, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Thinking, Impossible

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