39 Quotes About Okinawa

Karate is five percent sweat; the rest is all commitment

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

. . in Old Karate, you learned you Art through pain. You learned quickly that your techniques had to be fast or powerful or both. If you did not embrace pain and it's lessons adequately, you simply did not survive

The aura of the place had shifted. Maybe I’d previously read or heard something about the cape. I don’t believe in ghosts, per se, but the mind is most definitely a haunted place.

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

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

Aboriginal Okinawan Karate was traditionally taught in modest home Dojos, in small informal groups (sole purpose of teachings revolved around life preservation), in A closely tied supportive environment; unlike main island modern Japanese version with rivalry and competition, instructed in large groups belonging to even larger organizations with pseudo-militaristic hierarchy

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.