Martial Arts Quotes - Page 13

• Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

  Conor McGregor

  Art, Doubt, Action

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• Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.

  Tsukahara Bokuden

  Warrior, Skills, Arrogant

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• The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.

  Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

  Warrior, Moon, Empty Mind

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• Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Warrior, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.157, Shambhala Publications

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• The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

  Sun Tzu

  Warrior, Battle, Samurai

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• Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Eye, Cutting, Warrior

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• SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.

  Gozo Shioda

  Warrior, Focus, Samurai

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• I always think street but train sport.

  Conor McGregor

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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• The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

  William Butler

  Art, Fighting, Men

  Sir William Francis Butler (1892). “Charles George Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

  Bruce Lee

  Swimming, Land, Water

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• There are no shortcuts because there is no end

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Art, Shortcuts, Ends

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• Hard work can't be ignored forever.

  John Moraga

  Art, Hard Work, Forever

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  It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, May, Firsts

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• The way is in training.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, Training, Way

  "The Book of Five Rings". Book by Miyamoto Musashi, 1645.

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• Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Mean, Determined To Succeed

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• We are the modern day gladiators.

  Tito Ortiz

  Art, Modern, Modern Day

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

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Overcoming, Remember

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• As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Training, Want

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• Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Triumph, Behinds

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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

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Eye, Fighting

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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Athlete, Power

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

  Soa Palelei

  Art, Discipline, Achievement

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• If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Strength, Art, Tired

  "Saulo Ribeiro: 'We Should Drop The 'Brazilian' in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'". Jits Magazine Interview (translated from French), www.bjjee.com. February 11, 2016.

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• When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Moving, Frustration

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• Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Vehicle, Human Potential

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