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Inspirational Quotes
~ Master Gichin Funakoshi
"Karate-Do is a lifetime study."
~ Master Kenwa Mabuni
"Slow and steady wins the race."
~ Aesop
"Better to be a tiger for a day than
a sheep for a lifetime."
~ Chinese Proverb
"He who chases around after many rabbits ends hungry."
~ Okinawan Proverb
"A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve.
It should not be used indiscriminately."
~ Master Chotoku Kyan
"Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over
one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face
reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our
prejudices. Overcome these and you
will have truly won."
~ David Walker
"Those things in life that we find the hardest to do, are the things
we are the most thankful we did."
~ Annette Ueckert
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who
can do him absolutely no good."
~ Samuel Johnson
"You say you want to be a Master? A master of whom? If it
is over others, chances are they aren't interested."
~ David Walker
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them."
~ Albert Einstein
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away."
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
~ Yoda
"Truth is that which is true - whether you know it
or not and whether you like it or not."
~ Ben Swett
"Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain,
O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own."
~ Herman Melville ~
Moby Dick
"Daniel-san! Daniel-san! It okay lose to opponent,
must not lose to fear!"
~ Mr. Miyagi ~
The Karate Kid
"We will fight on the seas and the oceans. We will fight with
growing
confidence and strength in the air. We shall defend our island,
whatever the cost may be. We will fight on the beaches, we
will fight on
the landing grounds, we will fight in the fields
and the streets, and we
will fight in the hills. And know
this, we will never, ever surrender."
~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Don't hit at all if it honorably possible to avoid
hitting; but never hit soft."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
"The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in
the perfection of the character of its participants."
~ Master Gichin Funakoshi
"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is
not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without
fighting is the highest skill."
~ Sun Tsu ~
The Art of War
"Boards -- don't hit back."
~ Bruce Lee
"Karate is not about winning. It's about not losing."
~ Master Shigetoshi Senaha
"One good use for a 'no holds barred' martial arts trophy might be to use
it as a spade to chip away at the mountain of hostility and the need
to dominate others that drove you to win it in the first place."
~ David Walker
"By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends
to The Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application
of thought, he descends below the level of the beast.
Between these two extremes are all the grades of
character and man is their maker and master.
~ James Allen ~
As A Man Thinketh
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but, it is the
journey that matters in the end."
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
"Don't fear death. Fear the unlived life."
~ Natalie Babbitt
"Karate begins and ends with respect."
~ Master Anko Itosu
"No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your
scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your
behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life."
~ Master Gichin Funakoshi
"If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.
If children live with encouragement, they learn
confidence. If children live with approval,
they learn to like themselves."
~ Dorothy Law Nolte
"You aren't rich until you have
something money can't buy."
~ Garth Brooks
"The more you sweat in training, the
less you will bleed in battle."
~ Navy Seals Motto
"Fall down seven times, get up eight."
~ Japanese Proverb
"Doubt is too lonely a word to know that
faith is his twin brother."
~ Kahlil Gibran
Luke Skywalker: "I don't believe it!"
Yoda: "That is why you fail!"
~ The Empire Strikes Back
"When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself;
for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never
be taken from you."
~ Lao Tzu
"Rule number one: Don't let them scare you."
~ Unknown
"That was perfect! Do it again."
~ David Walker
"You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because
you never know when the world will need you."
~ Rabbi Hillel
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
~Stephen Covey
"Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear,
but around in awareness."
~James Thurber
"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand."
~ Confucius
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when
you take your eyes off your goals.
~ Anonymous
"Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
~ Nathaniel Branden
"He's just a man, Rock, so be MORE man than him!"
~ Apollo Creed ~
Rocky III
"Unbeatable makes as
much sense as unsinkable."
~ David Walker
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
