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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 Way
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds
in his actions.
~ Confucius
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
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
Fighters
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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