Quotes About Being A Black Belt

#1. A black belt is nothing more than a belt, a piece of cloth. Your ultimate goal should not be to get your black belt. Your ultimate goal should be to be a black belt. Being a black belt is a state of mind, a way of life.

Bohdi Sanders

#2. When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

Junior Dos Santos

#3. The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

Karin Lowachee

#4. Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.

Johnny Thunders

#5. Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

J.G. Holland

#7. There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Bob Dylan

#8. The absence of symbols in our life debases it as much as any government can...

Josephin Peladan

#9. Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.

Farrah Gray

#10. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

Heather Hemmens

#11. Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

Vince Lombardi

#12. I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.

John Niven

#13. Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.

Criss Jami