Mr Bushido Quotes

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

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#2. Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

Nabeshima Naoshige

#3. The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

Steven Spielberg

#4. When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.

William C. Brown

#5. Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#6. Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

Inazo Nitobe

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

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#8. Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.
Morning arrives and that's it.
Sunlight darkens the earth.

Charles Wright

#9. Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives.

Inazo Nitobe

#10. To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I actually hate when people open my gifts, and I hate opening gifts in front of people.

Kourtney Kardashian

#12. Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

Tim Dorsey

#13. If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

Danny Boyle

#14. Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

Leonard Maltin

#15. There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle ... Perhaps ...

Jean-Pierre Melville

#16. Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#17. The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Dale Carnegie

#18. I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

Tom Cruise

#19. My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.

Rickson Gracie

#20. When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#21. The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#22. A kunoichi is married to her duty, and to death.

David Kudler

#23. Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.

Jeff Cooper

#24. Build pockets of stillness into your life.

Maria Popova

#25. The best fighter is never angry.

Lao-Tzu

#26. Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

Rick Remender