Best Martial Arts Inspirational Quotes

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Real living is living for others.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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.

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

Take what’s useful, discard what is not.