Best Martial Arts Quotes

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

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.

Without knowledge, skill cannot be focused. Without skill, strength cannot be brought to bear and without strength, knowledge may not be applied.

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

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.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

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

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

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

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

Be respectful of your Sensei.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

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.

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

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

When you have a dream, it’s going to be a lot of I can’t people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

I’m a martial artist. I’ve boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it’s not an easy thing to do.

I’m a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others — and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It’s a passion.

Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.