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Quotes to motivate your training
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
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
~ Chinese Proverb
If you can imagine it,
you can achieve it: If you can dream it, you can become it.
~ William Arthur Ward
Judge by my size do you?
Size Matters Not.
~ Yoda You can't reach the top unless you start climbing.
~ Alan Kilpatrick Motivation
is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~ Jim Ryun
A journey of a thousand miles must begin
with a single step.
~ Lao-Tzu 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 Quotes about how to train It is impossible for a man
to learn what he thinks he already knows.
~ Epictetus (50 - 138 AD) If you think you can or you think
you can't . . . you're right!
~ Unknown Do or do not, there is no try.
~ Yoda I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
~ Confucius
Remember... you are expressing the technique, not
doing the technique.
~ Bruce Lee
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
~ David Bly
I have not failed 700 times, I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When
I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
~ Thomas Edison
A knowledge
of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
~ M.C. Richards (as quoted in "Wisdom
of the Peaceful Warrior") Quotes about how to live the Martial Arts WayIf
you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
~John Wooden
You can’t
put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
~Michael Phelps
Nobody can hurt me without
my permission.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
~ Confucius
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished
with your ability.
~John Wooden
Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge,
any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result.
~ Tien T'ai
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid
danger.
~ Mencius
Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore
should neither be pompous nor arrogant.
~ Tsukahara Bokuden.
Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are
condemned to it.
~ Unknown
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why so few engage in it.
~
Henry Ford
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things,
you don't have enough goals.
~ Lou Holtz
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't
compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
~ Lao-Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest
things in the world.
~ 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
People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong
reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my dojo with a belligerent and cocky attitude. When I ask why
they want to study my art, their response has indicated to me that their goal is to learn to fight, which is the antithesis
of the philosophy I hope to instill: I want them to know how to defend themselves if necessary, but to avoid fighting whenever
possible because they will have nothing to prove by fighting.
~ Chuck Norris, "The Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions
to Real Problems" Quotes for Warriors and FightersChampions aren’t made in
the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.
~Muhammad
Ali
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and
something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
~Lance Armstrong
The true martial
artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
~ Young You can prevent your opponent from defeating
you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
~ Sun Tzu Boards don't hit
back.
~ Bruce Lee
Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond
appearances; position yourself for the advantage.
~ Deng Ming-Dao
The dance of battle is always played to
the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.
~ Sun
Tzu
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
~ Sun Tzu
The obstacle is the path.
~ Zen Proverb Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily
cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
~ Bruce Lee I'm a great believer
in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~ Thomas Jefferson We create our fate every day
. . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
~Henry Miller If you want
a quality, act as if you already had it.
~ William James
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