More Quotes

"To overcome others armies without fighting is the best of skills"

Sun Tzu  - The Art of War

"Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours."

Buddha in the Dhammapada

"The softest of stuff in the world penetrates quickly the hardest; insubstantial, it enters where no room is. By this I know the benefit of something done by quiet being; in all the world but few can know accomplishment apart from work, instruction when no words are used."

Tao Te Ching

"Outwardly, all activities cease;
Inwardly, the mind stops its panting.
When one's mind has become a wall,
Then you may begin to enter the Tao."

Bodhidharma

"If you practice the techniques diligently, you will have trust in what develops and forge yourself accordingly."

"One who is enlightened to all things will have no need to draw his sword rashly."

Morihei Ueshiba

"Men must eliminate narrow-mindedness which causes them to stand against their fellows, and acquire broad-mindedness." 

"Karate is a training of both mind and body, and leads one to a better understanding of both self and the world."

"Karate is self training in perfection, a means whereby a man may obtain that expertise in which there is not the thickness of a hair between a man and his deed."

Shosin Nagamine