Motivational quotes for martial artists

Motivational quotes for martial artists

In just a few short words quotes can encapsulate an entire strategy, philosophy, or approach to life. This page focuses on famous martial arts quotes. These martial arts quotes often provide useful information about martial arts strategy and training.

Bruce Lee
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.
Joe Louis
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
Lao Tzu
The best fighter is never angry.
Ip Man
Do not fight with the strength, absorb it and it flows, use it.
Bruce Lee
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Chris Matakas
We are not practicing Jiu Jitsu to learn how to fight, we are learning how to live.
Japanese maxim
Fall down 7 times, get up 8 times.
Lou Reed
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
German Proverb
On the day of victory no fatigue is felt.
Bruce Lee
It’s not about being better than the other. It’s about being better than you were yesterday Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Muhammad Ali
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Nelson Mandela
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Tom Landry
Settings a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Bruce Lee
Remember… you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why.
Richard Strozzi Heckler
The path of the warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.
Steve Young
The principale is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Bob Richards
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
Gene Dunn
The true work of the martial arts is progress, not perfection.
George Shultz
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
Tony Jaa
I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.
Bo Bennett
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Joe Rogan
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else
Gene Dunn
Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity.
Melody Beattie
In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.
Chuck Noll
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Paul Brown
A winner never whines.
Michelle Yeoh
Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.
Conor McGregor
The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Muhammad Ali
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and i believed in myself.
Joe Paterno
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Leo Howard
I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion
Henry Mintzberge
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
Greg Lemond
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Oliver Cromwell
He who stops being better stops being good.
Louis Mercier
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Courage first; power second; technique third.
Myamoto Musashi
Practice a thousand hours and you lern self discipline. Practice ten thousand hours and you learn about yourself.
Ability without effort is a waste, yet ability combined with effort is achievement.
Jean-Claude Killy
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Ueshiba, Morihei
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Bruce Lee
Defeat is a state of mmind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.