Inspirational Quotes

[DWx]

Anyone like to share any words that inspire them in any aspect of their MA training?

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ~ Bruce Lee

I guess this quote kinda reminds me not to be too set in my ways... like I have to constantly adapt to keep winning, whether in fighting or in any aspect of my life...

[Ace2021]

The harder the training, the easier the fight.

Georges St. Pierre

[lordtariel]

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

--Theodore Roosevelt

[Patrick]

Yeah, I love that quote, Kevin.

[bushido_man96]

That is a good quote. I have read about Teddy Roosevelt, and we was kind of a rough-houser. He actually moved some of the funiture aside in a White House room once so that he and a friend could have a cudgel match together! He also had a black belt in judo, I believe.

[nine_weapons]

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” - ambrose redmoon

[lordtariel]

Sensei will give you the first fish,

but if you ask for more,

he'll give you a fishing pole.

[Athena]

I like your guy's Quotes

Tao te ching, chapter twenty two

First two lines XD

Yeild and overcome

Bend and be straight

*flips thorugh book*

Chapter Twenty four..6 lines

"He who stands on tiptoe is not steady

He who strides cannot maintain the pace

he who makes a show is not enlightened

he who is self rteous is not respected

he who boasts acheives nothing

he who brags will not endure"

(eh..)

Aha! chapter twenty eight ..some parts

"know the strength of man

But keep a woman's care!"

"Know the white, but keep the black."

"Know honor, but keep humility "

(you can see i take a little inspiration from Lao tsu i'm just not a complete follower since I don't quite understand it all)

um an itty bit or chapter 30

"Force is followed by loss of strength"

*sigh* chapter 43, first line

The softest thing in the univers over comes the hardest thing in the universe.

Chapter 68 XD line 2

"A good fighter is not angery"

Chapter seventy six >.<

the whole thing

A man is born gentle and weak

At his death he is hard and stiff

Green plants are tender and filled with sap

At their death they are withered and dry

Therefore the sitff and unbending is the disciple of death

The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle

A tree that is unbending is easily broken

The hard and strong will fall

The soft and weak will over come

I actually can understand his point of view, and it brings some inspiration to me and my training...but I could easily adjust his philosophy for my own..in fact I do *shrugs*

"Big things comes in small packages...and the biggest package, could possibly only hold the smallest thing or sometimes even nothing at all"

Edited August 18, 2007 by Athena

[DWx]

Chapter Twenty four..6 lines

He who stands on tiptoe is not steady

He who strides cannot maintain the pace

he who makes a show is not enlightened

he who is self rteous is not respected

he who boasts acheives nothing

he who brags will not endure

I like that one

[Athena]

*grins* yea..so do I