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

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

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

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

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

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

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

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.

The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.

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.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Be respectful of your Sensei.

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.

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength.

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

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

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