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The Complete Guide to GKR Karate |
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Quotes
TRAINING QUOTES "The only difference between the possible and the impossible is one’s will.” Hironori Ohtsuki, Founder of Wado-Ryu
“No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” Napoleon
“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” Wall Street Journal
“I think I can, I think I can!” The Little Engine that Could
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an art, but a habit.” Aristotle
“Those who persevere in the rigors of training will find that the harder they train, the more fascinating the art becomes.” Gichin Funakoshi
“A kata is like a poem from a Zen Master – compact, elegant, full of meaning, worthy of reflection.” Geir Store, Karate Kata Training
“We do not stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.” Unknown
“To achieve great thing we must live as though we were never going to die.” Marquis de Vauvenargues, French moralist
“Ability is nothing without opportunity.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.” Janis Joplin, U.S. singer
“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.” Thomas Szasz, Humanist
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.” Ovid, Roman poet
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present and future. As our circumstances are new, we must think anew, and act anew.” Abraham Lincoln
“A teacher can do no more than point the way and, sometimes by example, inspire. The work is up to the student.” Herman Kauz, Tai Chi Handbook
“Training is like rowing a boat upstream. If one stops rowing, one doesn't just stay there, one starts slipping downstream.” Unknown
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato
“We must become the change we want to see.” Mahatma Gandhi
“One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.” Edmund Parker
“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” Vincent T. Lombardi
“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness. Only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.” Bruce Lee
“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action”. Bruce Lee
“He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position.” Edmund Parker
“Those who persevere in the rigors of training will find that the harder they train, the more fascinating the art becomes.” Gichin Funakoshi
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat
itself.”
“Whether you think that you can, or you can't, you are usually right.” Henry Ford
“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“From white belt to black belt you shape the tool, at black belt you start to learn how to use it.” Unknown
“The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.” Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
“When one eye is focused on the result, there is only one eye left to find the way.” Unknown
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Unknown
“Those who achieve the most are not the most skilled, but are those who concentrate long after the others have given up.” Unknown
“There are no masters, just students with more seniority.” Unknown
“Success should be a result, not a goal.” Unknown
“Pain is inevitable, misery is optional.” Unknown
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred wars is not the ultimate skill. To stop the enemy without fighting is the ultimate skill.” Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
“In all things, one must have a clear mind.” Gichin Funakoshi
“It's not who's right, but who's left.” Ed Parker
“The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short and
again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends
himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high
achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.”
“One hour of life, crowded to the full with
glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth years of those mean
observances of paltry decorum in which men steal through existence, like
sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.”
“In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts
more than the object pursued.”
“Desire is the
key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting
pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to
attain the success you seek.”
“If you learn
only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn the principles
behind the methods, you can devise your own methods.”
“You have to
be able to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
“Five Secrets of Japanese Goju Ryu: Move quickly; Have a sound, calm mind; Be light in body; Have a clever mind; Master the basics.” Gogen Yamaguchi
“The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory or defeat but in the perfection of the character of its participants.” Gichin Funakoshi
“The strongest way to block, is never to provoke a blow” Unknown
“Karate is not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.” Elvis Presley
“Seven days without training makes one weak.” Unknown
“You only loose if you stop trying.” Laurence Smith
“There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.” Chuck Norris
“Do, or do not. There is no try.” Yoda, Star Wars
“Just Do It!” Nike
PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTES “He who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.” Confucius
“He is able who thinks he is able” Buddha
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Unknown
“The things you believe about yourself create your reality.” Susan Scantling & Sue Browder, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex
“I was angry for I had no shoes... then I met a man with no feet.” Unknown
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” May Sarton, U.S. author and poet
“Art reveals itself in psychic understanding of the inner essence of things and gives form to the relation of man with nothing, with the nature of the absolute.” Bruce Lee,The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear
defeat without losing heart.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Vanity is the only obstacle in life.” Matsumura
“Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.” William Wallace
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“You have never really lived until you've done
something for someone who can never repay you.”
“One cannot discover new oceans unless she has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Unknown
“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus, Greek philosopher
“Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.” Walter Winchell, American journalist and broadcaster
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage... to listen to his own goodness.” Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor
“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” Aristotle
“You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” Edmund Hillary, New Zealander mountaineer and explorer
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” Aristotle
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.” Saint Augustine, Roman religious figure and philosopher
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.” Buddha
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