Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[gregimotis]

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.


Herman Melvile
Moby Dick

[BayangUK]

If all you have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail

incoming fire has the right of way

inaction is a weapon of mass destruction

[chalambok]

"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible." - Eroc Hoffer

[Tant01]

"Well done is better than well said"


Benjamin Franklin

Thanks Mike B. I would drop some "reputation points" on you but I still need to spread it around!

[Tant01]

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill".
-Muhammad Ali

[NaTurE-of-WaTeR]

quotes

Rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
- necro

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder,
and crush him.
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where
you are not expected
--------art of war

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself
-Chinese Proverb

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
--Mohandas Gandhi

[Warrior189]

Boxing is a sport. Whats wrong with competition? Whoever wins or loses, it shouldnt leave the ring. - Takamura from Hajime No Ippo

[Warrior189]

No. Boxing is a blood sport. No matter how you do it, the winner is the one that survives. - Mashiba from Hajime No Ippo

[chalambok]

"Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company." - Mark Twain

[BoarSpear]

You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ~Bulgarian proverb~

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt ~

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
~Helen Keller~

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively.
~Robert Heinlein (Assignment in Eternity)~

[HtTKar]

In theory there's no difference between theory and practice;
but in practice there is!

[Tant01]

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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt ~


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His foreign policy idea of "Walk softly and carry a BIG stick" seems worth quoting...

[BoarSpear]

His foreign policy idea of "Walk softly and carry a BIG stick" seems worth quoting...

I figured id get a whole lot of flack for posting that one in todays world...george bush seems to interpet that to mean scream wildly like an enraged silverback and smash everything in site...

[Oreomeister365]

MY BLADE CAN CUT THROUGH ARMOR! but it can still cut a tomato!

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[bbbb]

...SiGung Henry Sue:

He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.