Martial Arts Quotes
Martial Arts
All-Time Great Quotes
- “Pain is weakness leaving the body.” – Unknown
- “Black Belt — A white belt that never quit”. – Unknown
- “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
- “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
- “Where do you begin? Perfect is a good place to start. We must always focus on improving things that are already perfect”. – J. Viol
- “Remember… you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique”. – Bruce Lee
- “Boards don’t hit back”. – Bruce Lee
- “Courage first; power second; technique third”. – Unknown
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit”. – Aristotle
- “The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become of it.” – John Ruskin
- “Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true”. – Balzac
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
- “Fear not the man who practises a thousand attacks once. Fear the man who practises one move a thousand times”. Bruce Lee
- “How you train is how it will come out”. – David James
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them”. – Michael Jordan
- “When you say “I will” with conviction, magic begins to happen”. – Wally Amos
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight”. – Japanese Proverb
- “Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve”. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- “What the mind can perceive, the heart can believe, the body can achieve”.
- “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right”.
- “Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them”. – Bud Fox
- “Do, or do not, there is no try”. – Yoda
- “Black belt is not something you get, it is something you become”. – Warrior Spirit
- “Failure is only temporary. Quitting makes it permanent”. – Unknown
- “In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued”. – Bruce Lee
- “A person who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in their every action”. – Unknown
- “If you know the art of breathing you have the strength, wisdom and courage of ten tigers”. – Chinese adage
- “The time to strike is when the opportunity presents itself”. – 6th code of Ishinryu Karatedo
- “The more you sweat the less you bleed”.
- “Even though surrounded by several enemies set to attack, fight with the thought that they are but one”. – Ueshiba
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”. – Bruce Lee
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them”. – Michael Jordan
- “Tomorrow’s battle is won during today’s practice”. – Samurai Maxim
- “A black belt is more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude”. – Rick English
- “To know and act are one and the same”. – Samurai Maxim
- “Don’t fail for want of trying. Give it a go”. – WGP
- “There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one”. – Chuck Norris
