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These quotes are taken from many sources.
I hope that they provide you with the stimulation you are searching for!
Sensei Peter Reilly
Use your head, or somebody else might.
The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What
begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly
still. - Sun Tzu
Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own
strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the
everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes. - Yamamoto
Tsunetomo
Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress,
the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH. -
Ueshiba Morihei
When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. -
Unknown
The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things - The Buddha
Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself - Shinkage School
of Swordsmanship
Jiu Yoku Go o Sei Suru - Flexibility Masters Hardness
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your
body -- Yagyu Munenori
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself -- Chinese
Proverb
When the student is ready, the Master appears. -- Buddhist Proverb
Be master of mind rather than mastered BY
mind
Success is built on the gradual accumulation of little things over a
long period of time and diversity is the celebration of differences.
Field Marshall von Krawitz on war and the kinds of people the are,
wrote:
1. Hard working but stupid...they make good soldiers
2. Lazy and stupid...no body wants them
3. Lazy & clever...they make good officers
4. Hard working & clever...get rid of them
"I was not going to let other people's opinion of me become my opinion
of myself." Colin Powell
By being pushed, I grew rapidly.
At some point in my training I realized I was good enough to be a
teacher, an author, a leader.
Louis Pasteur - "One must not assume that an understanding of science
is present in those who borrow its language."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of
preserving peace." - General George Washington
He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened. -Tao
Te Ching
"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength
cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be
applied." --Alexander the Great's Chief Physican
"Fear is the true opiate of combat."
"To a real warrior, power perceived may be power achieved."
"Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough
knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master
both....and surpass the result." --Tien T'ai
Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action - Thomas Mann
"It is a brave act of valour to condemn death, but where life is more
terrible than death it is then the truest valour to dare to live." - Sir
Thomas Brown
Civilize the mind but make savage the body - Chairman Mao
Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you
will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by
halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands - Gen.
George S. Patton
I seek not only to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, I seek
the things they sought.
That which doesn't kill me, will make me stronger!
We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level
of our training
I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. -
Archilocus, 650 B.C.
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day,
as though a fire were raging in your hair. - Taisen Deshimaru
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his
pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires
them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action.
Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are
vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. --
Deng Ming-Dao
Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it.
"I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than
death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid
danger."--Mencius
"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it's
price."--Sun Tzu
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not
stop.-Confucius
'Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured
samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.' -
Tsukahara Bokuden.
War is not about who is right, it is about who is left.
The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the
brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed
mind. - Yagyu Jubei
It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be
impossible for others to cut down - Yagyu Munenori
When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side. -
Wu Tsu
Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will
dare to challenge you. - Ueshiba
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's
mind there are few - Suzuki
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
When the Way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass
through. - I Ching
The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle. -
Motto of Navy Seals
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the
easy yet it is sought in the difficult. - Mencius
To think, "I will not think" - This, too, is something in one's
thoughts. Simply do not think about not thinking at all. - Takuan
Olympic Motto ;
You are my adversary, but not my enemy. Your resistance gives me
strength Your will gives me courage. Your spirit enables me. And though I
aim to defeat you, should I succeed, I will not humiliate you. Instead I
will honour you, for without you I am a lesser person.
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