Empowering Martial Arts Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Journey

"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities"

- Bruce Lee

"The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of character."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You carry on no matter what the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up ... and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And you win."

- Vince Lombardi

"A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up."

- Rickson Gracie

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

- Nelson Mandela

"The successful warrior is the average person, with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

"The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat but in the perfection of the character of its participants."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength."

- Dr. Claire Weekes

"There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn."

- Carlos Gracie Jr.

"Black belt is not something you get, it is something you become."

- Warrior Spirit

"Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing."

- Jet Li

"Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water."

- Bruce Lee

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."

- Tony Dorsett

"A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing."

- Bruce Lee

"There is no secret to getting good at Jiu Jitsu. All you need to do is show up and train."

- Carlos Vieira

"If you truly love life, don't waste time; because time is what life is made of."

- Bruce Lee

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Knowledge is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

- Bruce Lee

"To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."

- Bruce Lee

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

- Buddha

"If you’re going through hell, keep going!"

- Winston Churchill

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, both technically and spiritually, we might as well be dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The best fighter is someone who never has to fight because they control the situation."

- Bruce Lee

"Your spirit is the true shield."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

- Steve Young

"Martial arts is not about fighting, it’s about building character."

- Bo Bennett

"The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body and polish the spirit."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"To be able to tell any man that he cannot defeat you is to wield true power."

- Saulo Ribiero (about Helio Gracie)

"The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be amongst the cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

- Bruce Lee

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Do or do not, there is no try."

- Yoda, Star Wars

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as your own."

- Jitsumi Gogen Yamaguchi

"Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself."

- Jitsumi Gogen Yamaguchi

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

- Sun Tzu

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Liane Cardes

"No one has the right to beat you."

- Ronda Rousey

"The Jiu-Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong."

- Helio Gracie

"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."

- Jackie Chan

"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

- Bruce Lee

"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat."

- Navy SEALs creed

"The only time we fail is when we stop trying."

- Chuck Norris

"A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."

- Chuck Norris

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"You're never a loser until you quit trying."

- Mike Ditka

"Karate is like boiling water. If you do not heat it constantly, it will cool."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills."

- Bruce Lee

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"In karate, there is no first strike. Karate is about finishing a fight before it starts."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant"

- Taisen Deshimaru

"Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character."

- Bo Bennett

"Martial arts is not just about fighting; it's about building character."

- Bo Bennett

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"The difference between a warrior and ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse."

- Carlos Castaneda

"We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people."

- Jackie Chan

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"A champion is someone who gets up when they can't."

- Jack Dempsey

"Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be."

- Tim Fargo

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back."

- Ryron Gracie

"Martial arts is like a mirror, in which you look at yourself before you wash your face in the morning. You see yourself, simply, the way that you are."

- Jiddu Krishnnamurti

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

"You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you."

- Bruce Lee

"Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine."

- Bruce Lee

"To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself."

- Bruce Lee

"I do not teach you anything. I just help you to know yourself."

- Bruce Lee

"You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win."

- Sugar Ray Leonard

"Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive."

- Imi Lichtenfeld

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you are not a winner."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."

- Jimmy Demaret

"The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing that the enemy does not expect."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one."

- Chuck Norris

"A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good."

- Ronda Rousey

"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."

- Sun Tzu

"The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him."

- Sun Tzu

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"If you can accept losing, you can't win."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."

- Carl Lewis

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does."

- Dan Millman

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

- Bruce Lee

"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind."

- Bruce Lee

"Fall down 7 times, get up 8 times."

- Japanese maxim

"I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You’ve got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it."

- Chuck Norris

"Forget about winning or losing - put your focus on learning developing. It's a much better long-term strategy, trust me."

- Nicolas Gregoriades

"Concentrate on what you can control, things you can't control are a waste of energy and time."

- Firas Zahabi

"Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made."

- Gabby Douglas

"The true work of the martial arts is progress, not perfection."

- Gene Dunn

"Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you."

- Ueshiba

"To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

- Gunnar Nelson

"When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive."

- Bruce Lee

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"A good instructor teaches students how to fight, a great instructor teaches students how to live."

- Ricardo Almeida

"One of the greatest gifts of the martial arts is that they ultimately guide us to new levels of spirituality."

- Joseph Cardillo

"I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person."

- Ronda Rousey

"The best part of falling is getting back up again."

- David Belle

"We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people."

- Jackie Chan

"Do not fight with the strength, absorb it and it flows, use it."

- Ip Man

"The true warrior is a man of compassion."

- Bohdi Sanders

"Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret."

- Jim Rohn

"I don’t initiate violence. I retaliate."

- Chuck Norris

"far greater hero than he who has defeated 1000 times a 1000 men."

- Buddha

"A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."

- George Patton

"When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it’s price."

- Sun Tzu

"Karate begins and ends with courtesy."

- Anko Itosu

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to."

- Henry Van Dyke

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

- William Wallace

"The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love – for the preservation of life, for the preservation of the body, and for the preservation of family and friends."

- Dan Inosanto

"Keep your mind clear and the technique will come."

- Audrey Ward

"The goal of martial arts is to affect the mind and spirit, not just the body."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart."

- Tony Jaa

"The hardest fight comes from the opponent within."

- Garry Wasson

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them."

- Chris Weidman

"All Martial Artists are beginners; Some of us have just been beginning longer!"

- J.R. West

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

- Gautama B.

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess."

- Wong Shun Leung

"Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential."

- Joe Rogan

"I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you’re sparring or drilling techniques, you can’t think of anything else."

- Joe Rogan

"Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics."

- Jitsumi Gogen Yamaguchi

"It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired."

- Jitsumi Gogen Yamaguchi

"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."

- Donnie Yen

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

- Seneca

"combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit."

- Bruce Lee

"Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave."

- Bruce Lee

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

"Judge by my size do you? Size Matters Not."

- Yoda, Star Wars

"The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The moment we stop analyzing and let go, we can start really seeing, feeling – as one whole."

- Bruce Lee

"To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive."

- Cameron Conaway

"The more you practice, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom."

- Bruce Lee

"Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to proper execution of all physical action."

- Bruce Lee

"All war is based on deception."

- Sun Tzu

"If size mattered then the elephant would be king of the jungle."

- Rickson Gracie

"The best fighter is never angry."

- Lao Tzu

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'."

- Muhammad Ali

"A true martial artist doesn't live in balance; he creates it."

- Dan Millman

"If we overcome those enemies that attack us from within, we can attain a true victory over any attack from without."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves."

- Frank Shamrock

"Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people."

- Jackie Chan

"The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion."

- Mas Oyama

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

- Bruce Lee

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

- William A. Ward

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

- General George Washington

"Imagine if every child learned the respect, courtesy and discipline martial arts teaches."

- Chris Whamond

"It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."

- John Wooden

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow."

- General George S. Patton

"Good judgement is the result of experience, and experience the result of bad judgement."

- Mark Twain

"For how can a man die better than facing fearful odds defending the ashes of his father and the temple of the gods?"

- TB MacCauley

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"In great and dangerous operations one must not think but act."

- Julius Caesar

"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."

- George F. Kennan

"The tragedy of life lies not in not reaching your goals, but in having no goals to reach."

- Benjamin Elijah Mays

"Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to."

- Lakshya Bharadwaj

"Karate begins and ends with respect."

- Anko Itosu

"He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city."

- Proverbs

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."

- Frances de Sales

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

- Confucius

"The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus."

- Conor McGregor

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person."

- Ronda Rousey

"Masters of the martial arts believe that a strong body and mind go together: you can’t improve one without working on the other."

- Laura Scandiffio

"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It’s not just a physical discipline."

- Brandon Lee

"My father always said, ‘Don’t try to beat them. Don’t lose to them. They will lose. They will make a mistake."

- Royce Gracie, speaking about his father, Helio Gracie

"Achieving a state devoid of doubt is the essence of martial arts."

- Kazumi Tabata

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."

- Col. David Hackworth

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."

- Sun Tzu

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

"Sometimes you don’t have to win. You cannot win. But that has nothing to do with losing."

- Rickson Gracie

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

"If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts."

- Peter McWilliams

"When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect."

- Anderson Silva

"He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened."

- Tao Te Ching

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

- Sun Tzu

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind"

- Zen Saying

"A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it."

- Jet Li

"Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought."

- Matsu Basho

"A weapon isn`t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it."

- Jet Li

"When the Way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through."

- I Ching

"Aikido is the way of harmony, but not too much harmony."

- Sensei Yoshimitsu Yamada

"If you dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologise."

- Muhammad Ali

"The greatest enemy will always hide in the last place you would ever look."

- Julius Ceasar

"This game is ninety percent mental, the other half of physical."

- Yogi Berra

"If you try to aim for it, you are turning away from it."

- Zen Proverb

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."

- Chinese Proverb

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got."

- Mark Twain

"Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose."

- Evan Esar

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few."

- Suzuki

"Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later – Squish!"

- Mr Miyagi, Karate Kid

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

- Decouvertes

"The martial arts are non-combative because these martial artists think actual fighting doesn’t express goodness or mystic insight."

- Keith Vargo

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so."

- Mark Twain

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second."

- William James

"Only a fool does something new and thinks it will work for sure. Only a failure refuses to try something that might not work."

- Seth Godin

"There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned."

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"On the day of victory no fatigue is felt."

- German Proverb

"When it comes to performance standards, It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate."

- Jocko Willink

"You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell."

- Jack Welch

"In the struggle between the stone and water, in time, the water wins."

- Japanese Proverb

"Force has no place where there is need of skill."

- Herodotus

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

- Aeschylus, Ancient Greek playwright

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

- Henri-Louis Bergson

"No plan of action ever survives contact with the enemy."

- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

"There’s only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

- Isaac Asimov

"How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."

- Napoleon

"Overnight success feels great after playing 10 years in honky-tonks behind chicken wire."

- Willie Nelson

"A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscriminately."

- Chotoku Kyan

"You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair."

- Taisen Deshimaru

"Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend."

- Jackie Chan

"Learning defense improves the attack. If the lion knows how the prey can escape, it’ll capture it in a much more precise way."

- Rillion Gracie

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

- Buddha

"The minute you stop being humble is the minute you’re going to start moving forward as a fighter and a person you’re going to become stagnant at that point."

- Machachi

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night."

- Longfellow

"You might as well stand and fight because if you run, you will only die tired."

- Vern Jocque

"The aim of education should be teaching us how to think, rather than what to think."

- James Beatti

"I have had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards."

- Alberto Salazar

"It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live."

- Sir Thomas Brown

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."

- Ernie Banks

"Where do you begin? Perfect is a good place to start. We must always focus on improving things that are already perfect."

- J. Viol

"Civilize the mind but make savage the body."

- Mao

"Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action."

- Thomas Mann

"I am prolonging the fight because I can see that you need the practice."

- Zorro

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about. Always."

- Various authors attributed

"In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which."

- G.R.R. Martin

"Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful."

- Earnest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Advertisement

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"Martial arts is not about being better than someone else, it's about being better than you used to be."

"My opponent is my teacher. My ego is my enemy."

"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training."

"The only way to improve in martial arts is to consistently push yourself out of your comfort zone."

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other a matter of time."

"The true essence of martial arts lies in the ability to control one's own mind and body."

"Martial arts is not just a physical practice, it's a mental and spiritual one as well."

"The true measure of a martial artist is not the number of victories, but the number of battles they have fought with honor."

"Martial arts is not just about winning, it's about learning and growing from every experience."

"A black belt is a white belt who never quit."

"True martial artists do not fight to win, they fight to better themselves."

"Martial arts is a way of life, not just a sport."

"He who has conquered himself is a greater warrior than he who has conquered a city."

"The only way to truly understand martial arts is to consistently practice and experience it for yourself."

"Martial arts training is about finding balance in all aspects of life."

"The greatest lesson of martial arts is to respect others, as well as oneself."

"Martial arts training is about becoming the best version of yourself, both physically and mentally."

"The true test of martial arts is how you handle defeat."

"Martial arts is not just about fighting, it's about learning how to control your emotions and reactions."

"Martial arts is a journey that never ends, as there is always room for growth and improvement."

"Fear is the true opiate of combat."

"Pain is not judgmental, people are."

"Don't block with your face."

"A black belt is a white belt who never gave up."

"There are two rules for being successful in martial arts. Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know."

"The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard. The strongest way to block, is never to provoke a blow. And the cleanest cut is the one withheld."

"It’s not about being better than the other. It’s about being better than you were yesterday."

"A black belt is another name for a white belt that never quit."

"Life doesn’t get easier - you just get stronger."

"True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action."

"It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are."

"A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it."

"There are two rules for being successful in Martial Arts. Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know."

"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle."

"In martial arts, the biggest opponent you will ever face is yourself."

"The bigger they are the harder they fall. The smaller they are the further they fly!"

"It's better to be a weapon than to just have a weapon."

"A rock is rounded and smoothed by many years of bouncing in the ocean, a karateka, like a rock, advances himself by many years of practice."

"Karate is not for the faint-hearted. It's about pushing yourself to the limit and beyond."

"I shall give you a brief taste of death, so that you may recognize it when it comes again."

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."

"The true competitor isn't the one who wins, but the one who gives their best effort."

"The black belt is not a mark or symbol of the end of the journey to one's mastery of the arts; rather it is the mark that one is done packing for their journey and may now take the first step in their true journey. This a journey which can not ever be complete, only traveled..."

"There is no comfort in the growth zone and no growth in the comfort zone."

"Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you."

"A knight in shining armour is a man who has never had his metal tested."

"The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

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"Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it."

"You don't stop training in Jiu Jitsu when you get old. You get old when you stop training in Jiu Jitsu."

"Cry in the dojo. Laugh on the battlefield."

"It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray; Of the mind, do not be mindless."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, it is that we are powerful beyond measure."

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"Pain is weakness leaving your body."

"To a real warrior, power perceived may be power achieved."

"It's not about being better than someone else, it's about being better than you were yesterday."

"When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target."

"I seek not only to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, I seek the things they sought."

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."

"A black belt holds your robe together."

"Karate is a lifelong journey of self-discovery and self-improvement."

"A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude."

"Courage first; power second; technique third."

"Haters will see you walk on water and say it’s because you can’t swim."

"Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from the negative."

"Martial arts quotes inspire us, motivate us and drive us forward as martial artists."