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5 Good Martial Arts Sayings

 1. "Every day is a good day for karate." - Seikichi Iha, Hanshi, 10th Dan Beikoku Shdiokan Karate-do.
 2. "Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design—do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things." - Morihei Ueshiba
 3. "Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless - like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
" - Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon
 4. "You may train for a long, long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning to dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do." - Gichin Funakoshi (+ my father said almost the same in 1986.  )
 5. "Practice each of the techniques of karate repeatedly. Learn the explanations of every technique well, and decide when and in what manner to apply them when needed." – Anko Itosu.
 Source and more: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martial_arts

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5 great martial artists, 5 good sayings

1. Chuck Norris:

Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.
 

2. Bruce Lee:

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire — soon it will go out. Before we married, we never had the chance to go out to nightclubs. We only spent our nights watching TV and chatting. Many young couples live a very exciting life when they are in love. So, when they marry, and their lives are reduced to calmness and dullness, they will feel impatient and will drink the bitter cup of a sad marriage.
 

3. Morihei Ueshiba:

Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything—even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees -- should be your teacher.
 

4. Jigoro Kano:

There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.
 

5. Koichi_Tohei:

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.
  _{From: http://en.wikiquote.org http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/}