Top 64 Mas'r Quotes
#1. The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once. Ye'll never see such another woman, Mas'r George - not if ye live to be a hundred years old. So, now, you hold on to her, and grow up, and be a comfort to her.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#2. As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.
Mas Oyama
#3. The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
Mas Oyama
#4. The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated
Mas Oyama
#5. Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.
Mas Oyama
#6. Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time
A. Perez
#7. Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.
Mas Oyama
#8. A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.
Mas Oyama
#9. Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.
Mas Oyama
#11. If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.
Mas Oyama
#12. Ibn Mas'ud said that Allah's Messenger said: Abusing a Muslim is sinful and fighting with his tantamount to Kufr. Bukhari Muslim
Ahmad Von Denffer
#13. I feel persecuted by the power of mother nature, who dwarfs my farm with her unpredictable character. Yet I cling to a spirit of survival. I observe others, my family and neighbors, as we brace for the storm with a humbling humility.
David Mas Masumoto
#14. Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.
Mas Oyama
#15. Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
Mas Oyama
#16. The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen Way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice.
Mas Oyama
#17. Taking "Christ" out of "Christmas" just reads "Mas" which is Spanish for "More." Seems Americans just want "mas," "mas," "mas." But when is more ever enough without Christ in it? More Christ?
Kilburn Hall
#18. Did you know that Christmas means "Christ" (Jesus) and "mas" (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth!
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#19. Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?
Mas Oyama
#21. A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.
Mas Oyama
#22. Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.
Mas Oyama
#23. One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.
Mas Oyama
#24. The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst.
H. E. Fosdick
#25. Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Shall I tell you who is unlawful for the Fire - or the one for whom the Fire is unlawful? It is unlawful for everyone who is easy, flexible, modest and uncomplicated.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#26. If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.
Mas Oyama
#27. We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.
Anthony Liccione
#28. Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
Mas Oyama
#29. One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.
Mas Oyama
#31. My Way is the Way of Karate, which is also the Way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the Way of Heaven.
Mas Oyama
#32. X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!
Lucas Remmerswaal
#33. The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.
Mas Oyama
#34. In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse
Joel Klein
#35. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.
Don King
#36. Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.
Mas Oyama
#37. Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques ...
Mas Oyama
#38. A type of humility marks a real farmer. Those of us who battle nature all year must ultimately accept the had we're dealt.
David Mas Masumoto
#39. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.
Mas'udi
#40. I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.
Mas Oyama
#41. Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.
Mas Oyama
#42. Sufre mas el que espera siempre
que aquel que nunca espero a nadie?
Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for anyone?
Pablo Neruda
#43. It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?
Mas Oyama
#44. Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.
Mas Oyama
#45. In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
Mas Oyama
#46. Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.
Jose Marti
#47. One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
Mas Oyama
#48. I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.
Alexa Riley
#49. Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.
Mas Oyama
#50. If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.
Mas Oyama
#51. Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.
Mas Oyama
#52. True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.
Mas Oyama
#54. The heart of our karate is real fighting.There can be no proof without real fighting. Without proof there is no trust. Without trust there is no respect. This is a definition in the world of martial arts.
Mas Oyama
#55. No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.
Mas Oyama
#57. A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future
David Mas Masumoto
#59. Hay una estrella mas abierta
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy?
Pablo Neruda
#60. I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.
Mas Oyama
#61. Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo.
Mas Oyama
#62. 1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan
Mas Oyama
#63. All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*
Stella Gibbons
#64. Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.
Mas Oyama
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