Martial Artist Quotes

• A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Artist, Quality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Failure, Adversity

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Take what's useful, discard what is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.175, Tuttle Publishing

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• Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 121, 2000.

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• Obey the principles without being bound by them.

  Bruce Lee

  Principles, Martial Arts, Principled

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.121, Tuttle Publishing

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• He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Art, Fool

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• A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Fighting, Punching

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Lying, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.206, Tuttle Publishing

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Fighting, Artist

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", 1973.

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• A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.90, Tuttle Publishing

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• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivation, Anger

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Thorough Knowledge

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

  Bruce Lee

  Artist, Doe, Mastery

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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• It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

  Muhammad Ali

  Shoes, Mountain, Boxing Champions

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 20, 2014

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• The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

  Neil Young

  Strong, Artist, Yield

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• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  Jackie Chan

  Change, Self Discipline, Martial Arts

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