291 Quotes About Martial-arts

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.

The sword is a handle onto the Way of the world that is offering itself to you. If you are willful it will weigh a ton and wear you out. If you lose focus it will cut open your hand. Mindfulness keeps your mind on the blade; and if you are mindful you will not think about the future or past, there will be no blocks to the flow of Tao, and the Way of the world will flow through the sword and through you. You will become the sword of the world.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted by reality

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Never become so attached to following the path that you cease to question whether you should still be on it.

Protecting yourself is self-defense. Protecting others is warriorship.

Insanity is often compounded on the multiplicity of simple things, as so often seen in deranged people who have a simple logic all their own.on Kari, Valkyrie, Cold Steel Eternity, Vol. II

Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.

Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.