Many people seemed to enjoy the original Martial Arts Quotes so I thought I’d pull together some more quotes that you might find inspirational to your training:
Quotes to inspire courage
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
~ Bruce Lee
"Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
~ Bruce Lee
"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind."
~ Bruce Lee
"A black belt is a white belt who never quits!"
~ Renzo Gracie
"Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway."
~ Rudy Giuliani
"Fear is the true opiate of combat."
"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. "
~ Winston Churchill
Quotes about enlightenment and training
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
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 and 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
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
~ Bruce Lee
"A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it."
~ Jet Li
"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. "
~ Donnie Yen
"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more."
~ Ed Parker
"A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest."
~ Royce Gracie
"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 Physician
"He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened."
~ Tao Te Ching
"Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.
~ Deng Ming-Dao
"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
~ Sun Tzu
