Martial Arts Practice Quotes

#1. A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.

Michael Gerber

#2. Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

Dan Inosanto

#4. You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

#5. Friends possess everything in common.

Plato

#6. Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken.

Chris Matakas

#7. Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. If you're too busy to pray ... you're too busy

Mother Teresa

#10. I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

Anderson Silva

#11. I will continue to practice a martial arts form along with the mental and spiritual aspect that come with building a balanced life, and I will continue to incorporate it into whatever films I can.

Ryan Potter

#12. If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

Vicki Covington

#13. Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

Michelle Yeoh

#14. Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea.

Frederick Lenz

#15. If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Noam Chomsky

#16. To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

Taisen Deshimaru

#17. Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

Carol Channing

#18. I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

Vin Diesel

#19. I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

Tony Jaa

#20. The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#21. Hotel Food !!, If i eat i will get Obesity, if i don't eat i will get Acidity ... WHAT THE F ... O ... O ... D ... !!

Vinay Kumar

#22. There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

Georges St-Pierre

#23. And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.

John Brunner

#24. YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR BITCH

Jen Sincero

#25. I woke up every morning on the couch. It felt like the same morning all the time, or like an infinite series of nested dreams from which every day I imagined I awoke but I only ever really arose into another dream.

Paul Harding

#26. I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education.

Chris Matakas

#27. I would loathe to work on modern films.

Julie Harris

#28. We need to remember that the primary goal of Aikido is harmony and good relations between people. If we don't cultivate a harmonious heart along with technical skill, there will be a lack of integration in our practice, which will show up in behavior off the mat.

Linda Holiday