Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[hanuman]

"your best, isn't remotely close to my worse" -

[chalambok]

Delicious Ambiguity

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." - Gilda Radner

[NRC]

one laugh, one real

"To be armed is to be a citizen. To be unarmed is to be a subject" - Unknown.

"Build a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and keep him warm the rest of his life." - My friend Randy... at the campfire.

[gregimotis]

"Love thy neighbor as thyself"
Bible


"Of the 99 attributes of Allah, the highest is mercy"
Qur'an


"If you don't see God in all, you don't see God at all"
Yogi Bhajan


"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
Ghandi




Happy Christmas all.

[Tant01]

"For men of understanding do not say that the sword is to blame for murder, nor wine for drunkenness, nor strength for outrage, nor courage for foolhardiness, but they lay the blame on those who make an improper use of the gifts which have been bestowed upon them by God, and punish them accordingly."

St. John Chrysostom (circa 341-410 A.D.), from "Treatise on the Priesthood,"


"There is no safety for honest men, except by believing all possible evil of evil men."

Edwin Burke, via Thomas Sowell

[Tant01]

Hmmm, yeah, I thought it was worthy. I think this is from Cooper's Commentaries. You know that guy is not just the father of modern pistolcraft, he has like three PHDs... ? quite a fellow, eh?

[shuyun]

The Bene Gesserit Littainy against Fear.
Pg 19 of Dune

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

[chalambok]

from Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

with a little paraphrasing : "the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore...there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore...the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."

[chanmartialarts]

This is my all time favorite by a man who is truly incredible:

"Talent is God-given, be thankful; Fame is man-given, be greatful; Conceit is self-given, be careful" - Guro Dan Inosanto

One of my former teachers added this to Guro Dan's quote:
"Conceit is mother of insecutiy and the father of arrogance" - Guro Pat Finley

2 people who continue to play an important role in my life!

[seany85]

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember...amatuers built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic." Not to sure where I heard this.

[pittbulldog]

Quotes

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein.

The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein


"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got" - NLP adage

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
-Leo Rosten

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. –Theodore Roosevelt

"Fighting is cheating - the best cheater wins" Herman Suwanda

"The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule"
--Warren Buffett

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
-Dottie Walters

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-Henry Ford

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
-Lloyd Jones

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
-Confucius

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
-E. M. Forster

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
-William Hazlitt

[HtTKar]

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood: Walk in the rain, collect rainbows, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sand castles, watch the moon & stars come out, say hello to everyone, make up new rules, go on adventures, act silly, take bubble baths, hold hands & hug & kiss, dance, laugh & cry for the health of it, feel happy, say the magic words, trust the universe."
Bruce Williamson"


"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
Saul David Alinsky

"Life is like a great big grinding wheel. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of."

[Tant01]

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

-Aldous Huxley



"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

[bodhisattva]

Damned good Huxley quote. Really strikes at the heart of it.

Reality remains reality, so the price to be payed can never really get steeper...
However, if one's mindset gets too far removed from truth, the snap back to truth can be quite a whiplash.

[chalambok]

I Post No Commercials...lol

"All my years of boxing were nuthin', just God's way of giving me fame. So I can deliver a message." - Muhammad Ali