Favorite Martial Arts Quotes

[parkerkarate]

What are your favorite Martial Arts quotes? Here are mine:

1. "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless. Like water. Now put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You pour water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teacup, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow creep or drip -- or crash!Be water, my freind." Bruce Lee
2. "Be soft, yet not yeilding; firm, yet not hard.Remember that firmness is brought to life by gentleness and gentleness is activated and led by firmness." Bruce Lee
3. "Therefore gentleness alone can't forever dissolve away great force, nor sheer brute force to subdue one's foe. In order to survive in combat, the harmonius interfusion of gentleness and firmness is necessary; with one sometimes dominating the other and vice versa, in a wavelike succession. The movement will then truly flow; for the true fluidity of movement is in its interchangeability. This is also true in life." Bruce Lee
4. "Alive, a man is supple, soft, In death, unbending, rigorous. All creatures, grass and trees, alive are plastic but are pliant too, And dead, are friable and dry. Unbending rigor is the mate of death, And yeilding softness, company of life. Unbending soldiers get no victories; The stiffest tree is readiest for the ax. The strong and mighty topple from their place; The soft and yeilding rise above them all." Bruce Lee
5. "Knowing others means you are wise, but knowing yourself means you are enlightened" Bulletproof Monk
6. "Water which is too pure has no fish" Bullet proof Monk
7. "To hear is to doubt. To see is to be deceived. But to feel is to believe." -- SGM Ed Parker
8. "Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection." --SGM Ed Parker
9. "When pure knuckles meet pure flesh, that's pure Karate, no matter who executes it or whatever style is involved." --SGM Mr. Ed Parker
10. "He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position."-- SGM Mr. Ed Parker
11. "Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means." - SGM Ed Parker
12. "Many look, but few see." SGM Ed Parker
13. "The intellegent man is one who has sucessfully fufilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." SGM Ed Parker
14. "To beat action, meet it." SGM Ed Parker
15. "Often to become a champion you must believe in yourself when no one else will." SGM Ed Parker
16 "Opportunity may come but once, so take every advantage when it does occur." SGM Ed Parker
17. "Cannot is a word that cowards use." SGM Ed Parker
18. "Grace is a trait that can save your face from destruction." SGM Ed Parker
19. Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.
Stop our senses, close the doors;
Let sharp things be blunted,
Tangles resolved, the light.
Tempered and turmoil subdued;
For this is mystic unity
In which the wise man is moved
Neither by affection not yet by estrangement
Or profit or loss Or honor or shame. Tao Te Ching

[Blindside]

"This is the law:
The purpose of fighting is to win,
There is no possible victory in defense,
The sword is more important than the shield,
And skill is more important than either,
The final weapon is the brain.
All else is supplemental."
~ John Steinbeck

"The best parry is the blow."
~Maestro Luigi Barbasetti, 1899

“Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.”
~Robert A. Heinlein

“Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.”
~Morihei Ueshiba

[ronin6]

"In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won."
Musashi Miyamoto - "Book of Five Rings"

[ronin6]

"A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind."
"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."
Morihei Ueshiba

[gakusei]

Practice the technique 1,000 times and maybe you learn 10% - Hayawo Kiyama

[Celtic_Crippler]

Here's some you might enjoy:

http://www.georgia-kenpokarate.com/quotes.html

[jdinca]

MA is mind over matter. You don't mind, and they don't matter...

[Randy Strausbaugh]

"Fight the good fight, win if you can; if you can't win, cheat. Cheat anyway." - Gene LeBell

[hemi]

“It’s not how many techniques you know, it’s what you can do with what you know.” My instructor.

[Rob Broad]

"Get up, I am not done beating on you yet." We'll let casey Sutherland clue you into uses that line.

[Martin Seck]

Not a martial art quote but something I heard this morning from a co-worker.

The Ark was built by amateurs ... the Titanic by professionals.

LOL!

[Carol]

From Murphy's rules of combat -

"If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid"

[Martin Seck]

From Murphy's rules of combat -

"If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid"

That is good!

[bdparsons]

"Best block, no be there!" - Mr. Miyagi

[Martin Seck]

Posted this before but since it is a quote regarding this here goes:

"To know one is to know one thousand. To know yourself is enlightenment."

However in some states I hear that is against the law. /rimshot