Martial Arts Philosophy Quotes

#1. TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Tom Brokaw

#2. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.

Amy Harmon

#3. If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#4. The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.

Stephen K. Hayes

#5. The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.

Shaan

#6. Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it.

Amy Tan

#7. Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

Jet Li

#8. 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

M. Night Shyamalan

#9. In Jiu Jitsu an inch is a mile, and a second is an eternity. Use each wisely.

Chris Matakas

#10. When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

Guillermo Del Toro

#11. Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.

Chris Matakas

#13. And when you left you kissed my lips
You told me you would never ever forget these images

A Fine Frenzy

#14. Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

Yvonne Pierre

#15. War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.

Anonymous

#16. the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.'" As

Douglas Adams

#17. In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand.

Chris Matakas

#18. Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

Chris Matakas

#19. All of Jiu Jitsu is finding a way to get your partner to willingly go where you want him to go in the first place.

Chris Matakas

#20. By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

Chris Matakas

#21. True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful.

Chris Matakas

#22. Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

Bruce Lee

#23. We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.

Chris Matakas

#24. The term 'racism' was coined in the 1930s, primarily as a response to the Nazi project of making Germany judenrein, or 'clean of Jews'. The

Ali Rattansi

#25. 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 devoid of any significance.

William C. Brown

#26. Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.

Wong Kiew Kit

#27. There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

Philip Roth

#28. The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#29. Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Jet Li

#30. And they were deeply moved not so much by the poetry as by their sensitivity to poetry; not so much by the genius of the poem as by their wisdom in understanding the poem; not in knowing the poem but in knowing the poem demonstrated the higher side of themselves and of the Japanese spirit -

Richard Flanagan

#31. The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind.

M.J. Stoddard

#32. Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Nikolai Gogol

#33. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Soke Behzad Ahmadi