Mas Oyama Quotes

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• One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

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  Art, Everyday, Trying

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• If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

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  Giving Up, Overcoming, Tendencies

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• One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.

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  Art, Practice, Training

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

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  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• The heart of our karate is real fighting.There can be no proof without real fighting. Without proof there is no trust. Without trust there is no respect. This is a definition in the world of martial arts.

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  Art, Real, Fighting

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• I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

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  Goal, Progress, Way

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• If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

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  Regret, Effort, Needs

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• Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

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  Goal, Achievement, Degradation

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• Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

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  Art, Triumph, Martial Arts

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• No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

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  Strong, Winning, Rivals

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• The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

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  Art, Path, Courtesy

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• If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

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  Sleep, Training, Answers

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• Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

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  Risk, Victory, Coward

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• Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

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  Greed, Sake, Causes

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• The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated

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  Art, Eye, Fighting

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• Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

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  Art, Overcoming, Remember

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• A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

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  Art, Gains, Human Life

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• Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

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  Climbing, Achievement, One Day

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• Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.

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  Strong, Self, Training

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• True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

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  Justice, Born, True Courage

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• Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo.

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  Effort, Training, Dojo

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• Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

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  Sports, Fashion, Ideas

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• It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

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  Achievement, Tears, Toil

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• Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

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  Training, Technique, Body

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• My Way is the Way of Karate, which is also the Way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the Way of Heaven.

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  Heaven, Humanity, Way

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