Action Quote by Mas Oyama

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

— Frank Mir

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always…

— Melody Beattie

The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until…

— Bruce Lee

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are,…

— Milla Jovovich

You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life.

— Rza

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

— Georges St-Pierre

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement -…

— Austin Phelps

People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my dojo with…

— Chuck Norris

I know what martial arts have done for me. They've taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit.

— Stephen Thompson

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has…

— Bruce Lee

Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects…

— Taisen Deshimaru

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport…

— William C. Brown