Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[grubbogoppoly]

"To perceive is to suffer."
I believe it was aristotle.

[Nit]

Speak softly and kill anyone that asks you to repeat

[Zero18]

quote for personal usage

One should always look forward because an enemy who strikes from behind is too cowardly to hurt one anyway.
-Zero 18

Read My signature it is my personal quote that i chant to myself before every match to boost my confidence and get an adrenaline rush.

[Nit]

Re: quote for personal usage

Originally posted by Zero18
One should always look forward because an enemy who strikes from behind is too cowardly to hurt one anyway.
-Zero 18

"What if they have a knife?"

The above is a question and a quote...

[chalambok]

"But aren't all prophecies about the past?" - The Dalai Lama

[ryanhall]

This is, without a doubt, the best thread that these forums have ever produced.

[osopardo]

"I just don't wanna get hit."

Royce Gracie at UFC 1

[Nit]

Pain is inevitable, misery is optional

My best punch was the one I didn't throw."

Wear your rank in your heart, and not around your waist

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level
of our training



And some non-relevant but just strange ones:

When you seek it, you cannot find it

Every minute that you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of joy

Woah! Hey! It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!

Being vice president has actually feuled my blackened soul, allowing me to gorge vampire-like on the bloody nectar of unlimited power.
-Dick Cheney

[huey]

"dream, devise, and dare; success is 3 D"

"if you mess with the bull you gotta know you could get the horns"

"a house with no foundation will not last long"

"my hypocracy can only go so far." val kilmer as doc holiday "tombstone"

"if i take a day off of training i can feel the difference if i take two days off everyone can see it" unknown gold medal winning gymnast

"popular opinion may not always be right and the right opinion may not always be popular" unknown

"i'll be back" governor gropinator "terminator"

[SOUTHPAW]

"I'm gonna make you my girlfriend!"--Mike Tyson (talking to Donovan "Razor" Ruddock before Iron Mike kicked his arse in the ring.)

[chalambok]

Is this the end?

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." - Dwight Eisenhower

"There are so many people who have dreamed seemingly unattainable dreams and, because they never gave up, achieved their goals against all odds." - Dr Jane Goodall

"Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway." - Rudy Giuliani

"If you are willing to submit yourself, to align with whatever that...dream or vision is for yourself, then you can do great things in your life." - Oprah Winfrey

And finally a quote that has very much personal relevance at this time
"I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

[Lizard]

"I dont want to fight you"

-- what the quiet kung fu guy always says to the baddies as they try to provoke him. They take no heed of his warnings and he is forced to beat their asses.

Classic

PS I thought of a good one last night but now I forgot it.

[Nit]

if we do not fight then who has lost?

[chalambok]

Happy Holidays

if we do not fight then who has lost?

"Because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law, man. The original founder of the style started out with hyopothesis. But now it has become the gospel truth, and people who go into it become the product of it. It doesn't matter how you are, who you are, how you are structured, how you are built, or how you are made . . . it doesn't seem to matter. You just go in there and become that product. And that, to me, is not right."

"I don't want to sound like 'As Confucius say,' but under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different." - Bruce Lee

[Leonidas]

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasim." - Sir Winston Churchill.