Best Martial Arts Proverbs
540 Martial Arts quotes by 223 unique authors
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Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.
— Laozi
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The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
— Laozi
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If a battle can not be won do not fight it.
— Sun Tzu
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Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.
— Chris Weidman
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When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.
— Wong Shun Leung
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There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.
— Vladimir Vasiliev
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To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life…
— Vladimir Vasiliev
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The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to…
— Vladimir Vasiliev
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
— Ben Jonson
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If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?
— Bruce Lee
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If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.
— Randy Couture
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We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
— Nathanael Greene
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True victory is victory over oneself.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you…
— Koichi Tohei
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Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to…
— Bruce Lee
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My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
— Renzo Gracie
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Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
— Chuck Norris
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Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple...
— Carlson Gracie
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