"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline"
-Abraham J. Heschel-
"I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong"
-Vita Sackville-West-
"Everybody underestimates the kick to the groin"
- Bas Rutten -
"I don´t believe in an eye for an eye, I believe in two eyes for an eye"
-Bas Rutten-
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength"
-St. Frances de Sales-
"Where do you begin? Perfect is a good place to start.
We must always focus on improving things that are already perfect"
-J.Viol-
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace
-General George Washington-
"See first with your mind,
then with your eyes, and finally with your body"
-Yagyu Munenori-
"I do not fear an army of lions if a lamb leads them.
I do fear an army of sheep, if a lion leads them"
-Alexander the Great-
"Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action"
-Thomas Mann-
"One mind, any weapon"
-Hunter B. Armstrong-
"I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me"
-Archilocus-
"You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day,
as though a fire were raging in your hair"
-Taisen Deshimaru-
"I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death.
Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger"
-Mencius-
"You might as well stand and fight because if you run, you will only die tired"
-Vern Jocque-
"It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down"
-Yagyu Munenori-
"See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body"
-Yagyu Munenori-
"The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle"
-motto of Navy Seals-
"To think, ´i will not think´ - this, too, is something in one´s thoughts.
Simply do not think about not thinking at all"
-Takuan Soho-
"The mind should be nowhere in particular"
-Takuan Soho-
"Ultimately, you must forget about technique.
The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are.
The great path is really no path"
-Morihei Uueshiba-
"Master the divine techniques of the art of peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you"
-Morihei Ueshiba-
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself"
-Chinese proverb-
"A child´s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark"
-Chinese proverb-
"A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials"
-Chinese proverb-
"Water can support a ship and water can also sink a ship"
-Chinese proverb-
"When the student is ready, the master appears"
-Buddhist proverb-
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it"-Buddhist proverb-
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-Buddhist proverb-
"Anger is just like picking up a hot piece of coal and trying to throw it at the person you hate.
You are the only one that gets burned"
-Buddhist proverb-
"Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind"
-Zen proverb-
"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy´s resistance without fighting"
-Sun Tzu-
"All men can see these tactics whereby i conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved"
-Sun Tzu-
"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price"
-Sun Tzu-
"All warfare is based on deception"
-Sun Tzu-
"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill"
-Sun Tzu-
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy, who is not, will be victorious"
-Sun Tzu-
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious"
-Sun Tzu-
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy´s resistance without fighting"
-Sun Tzu-
"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles"
-Sun Tzu-
"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack"
-Sun Tzu-
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance"
-Sun Tzu-
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat"
-Sun Tzu-
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,
while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"
-Sun Tzu-
"If training is hard, then winning will be easy, but if training is easy, then winning will be hard"
-Norman Harris-
"It´s not whether you get knocked down; it´s whether you get up"
-Vince Lombardi-
"The harder you train, the harder it is to surrender"
-Vince Lombardi-
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it:
if you can dream it, you can become it"
-William Arthur Ward-
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"
-William Arthur Ward-
"You can´t reach the top unless you start climbing"
-Alan Kilpatrick-
"If every man would help his neighbour, no man would be without help"
-Bruce Lee-
"empty your cup so that it may be filled, become devoid to gain totality"
-Bruce Lee-
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows"
-Epictetus-
"The greatest power is often simple patience"
-Joseph Cossman-
"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven´t planted"
-David Bly-
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission"
-Mohandas ´Mahatma´ Gandhi-
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions"
-Confucius-
"The softest things in the world overcomes the hardest things in the world"
-Lao Tzu-
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened"
-Lao Tzu-
"kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates love"
-Lao Tzu-
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage"
-Lao Tzu-
"I´m a great believer in luck, and i find the harder i work, the more i have of it"
-Thomas Jefferson-
"If there is effort, there is always accomplishment"
-Jigoro Kano-
"Learn by others mistakes, you may not live long enough to learn by your own"
-Jigoro Kano-
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior.
Today is victory over yourself of yesterday;
tomorrow is your victory over lesser men"
-Miyamoto Musashi-
"you win battles by knowing the enemy´s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect"
-Miyamoto Musashi-
"Under the sword lifted high, there is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, and you have the land of bliss"
-Miyamoto Musashi-
"it is dishonourable to die with your katana clutched in your hand and your wakizashi tied to your belt sheathed and untouched"
-Miyamoto Musashi-
"Martial arts are like a mirror, in which you look at yourself before you wash your face in the morning.
You see yourself, simply, the way that you are"
-Jiddu Krishnamurti-
"Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class"
-Hong Hi Choi-
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another"
-Plato-
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"
-Plato-
"Better a little, which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly"
-Plato-
"Courage is knowing what not to fear"
-Plato-
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men"
-Plato-
"We make war that we may live in peace"
-Plato-
"Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them"
-Aristotle-
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
-Aristotle-
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit"
-Aristotle-
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift that´s why they call it the present"
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
"War cannot be avoided;
it can only be postponed to the other´s advantage"
-Niccolo Machiavelli-
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another"
-Plato-
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"
-Plato-
"Better a little, which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly"
-Plato-
"Courage is knowing what not to fear"
-Plato-
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men"
-Plato-
"We make war that we may live in peace"
-Plato-
"Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them"
-Aristotle-
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
-Aristotle-
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit"
-Aristotle-
"Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift that´s why they call it the present quote"
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
"War cannot be avoided;
it can only be postponed to the other´s advantage"
-Niccolo Machiavelli-
"Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth"
-Cato The Elder-
"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs"
-Cato The Elder-
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise"
-Cato The Elder-
"Nothing happens to anybody, which he is not fitted by nature to bear"
-Marcus Aurelius Antonius-
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it"
-Marcus Aurelius Antonius-
"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action"
-Marcus Aurelius Antonius-
"There is only one thing worse than a quitter, someone who is afraid to begin"
-Unknown-
"Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it"
-Unknown-
"I seek not only to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; i seek the things they sought"
-Unknown-
"Fear is the true opiate of combat"
-Unknown-
"To a real warrior, power perceived may be power achieved"
-Unknown-
"A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered"
-Mas Oyama-
"Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends"
-Mas Oyama-
"One living daily in the way carries their head low and their eyes high;
reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart,
they steadfastly continue in their training efforts"
-Mas Oyama-
"As far as possible, i want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach karate"
-Mas Oyama-
"If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to,i would answer:
training. Train more than you sleep."
-Mas Oyama-
"Karate is the most zen-like of all the martial arts"
-Mas Oyama-
"One must try every day to expand one's limits"
-Mas Oyama-
"Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered"
-Mas Oyama-
"Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo"
-Mas Oyama-
"The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice"
-Mas Oyama-
"If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do"
-Mas Oyama-
"Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants"
-Mas Oyama-
"Always remember that the true meaning of budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large"
-Mas Oyama-
"The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realised everywhere"
-Mas Oyama-
"I realised that perseverance and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path"
-Mas Oyama-
"Subjecting yourself to vigorous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body"
-Mas Oyama-
"We in kyokushin maintain faith in the ‘way’ that knows no prejudices"
-Mas Oyama-
"My way is the way of karate, which is also the way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the way of heaven"
-Mas Oyama-
"A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; i hope to train and send into society as many such men as i can"
-Mas Oyama-
"No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win"
-Mas Oyama-
"True courage is born only when justice accompanies it"
-Mas Oyama-
"Karate is budo and if budo is removed from karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable"
-Mas Oyama-
"I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists.
Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts"
-Mas Oyama-
"Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered"
-Mas Oyama-
"Until the day i die, i never want to be separated from my dogi; i never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo"
-Mas Oyama-
"If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life lead to nothing"
-Mas Oyama-
"Since karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques"
-Mas Oyama-
"Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of karate"
-Mas Oyama-
"In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve"
-Mas Oyama-
"studying the martial way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement"
-Mas Oyama-
"Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented"
-CMas Oyama-
"Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship"
-Mas Oyama-
"Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"Don´t pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"You must ignore the bad and adopt the good"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"Think of everyday life as karate training"
-Gichin Funakoshi-
"A good fighter must be a good thief. As he needs to steal all the valuable techniques from everyone to use himself."
-Ernesto Hoost, 4 times K-1 Grand Prix Champion-
"Hard is in the crust of a bread and even that you can eat."
-Itay Gil-
"What ever will not kill you makes you stronger. What ever will kill you makes your mother stronger"
-Itay Gil-
"The heart of our Karate is real fighting. There can be no proof without real fighting. Without proof there is no trust, without trust there is no respect. This is a definition in the world of Martial Arts."
-Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Kyokushinkai-