Samurai Quotes · Page 3

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

— Quentin Tarantino

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

An engineer without his calculator is just like a samurai without his sword..

— Abdul Malek Abdullah

“This better work. If it doesn’t work, I’ll have failed her. I don’t want to let her down.”

— Aron Lewes

“You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.”

— Kelley Armstrong

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

— Taisen Deshimaru

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

— Roger Ebert

“Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to find freedom in the martial…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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

— Sun Tzu

“What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and…

— Miyamoto Musashi

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and…

— Yvon Chouinard

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido…

— Tom Cruise

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it…

— Troy Polamalu

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like…

— Chris Evans

Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you…

— George S. Patton

One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man…

— Takeda Shingen

Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the…

— John Wayne

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how…

— James Mangold

“We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no…

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

“Lord Naoshige said, " The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill a man. Common sense…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“You see,” he went on, “some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They’re buffeted by this wind…

— John Allyn

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level,…

— Virat Kohli

“Of course,” said Mik, without missing a beat. “However, as cool a word as samurai is, I don’t think it’s what we…

— Laini Taylor

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

— Stan Sakai

Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

“It seems Washinoo didn't mind being kidnapped by lunatics. He remained with Yoshitsune until the very end.”

— Pamela S Turner

“How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?”

— Nadia Scrieva

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

— Sandy Fussell

I'm traditional. I'm like a samurai. I'm a martial artist. I'm a sniper. I know things about the body.

— Uriah Hall

“Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

— Miyavi

I wasn't hip to 'Samurai Jack' until I saw it, but then I was all, 'This show is awesome!'

— John DiMaggio

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

— Carlson Gracie

Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.

— Enson Inoue

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

— Yagyu Munenori

For those that don't know, a Ronin is a Japanese word for masterless samurai and in the wrestling industry that is how…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

I remember my roommate was watching 'Seven Samurai,' and I just couldn't fathom why anybody would watch it.

— Lee Isaac Chung

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

— Takuan Soho