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But To Those Who Kept Saying "it Can't Be Done," Never Are The Victories Or The Honors Won. But, Rather, By The Believing, Doing Kind, While The Doubters Watched From Far Behind.

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But To Those Who Kept Saying "it Can't Be Done," Never Are The Victories Or The Honors Won. But, Rather, By The Believing, Doing Kind, While The Doubters Watched From Far Behind.

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To Be Certain, Every Day There Can Be A Revelation Or A New Discovery.

Do Not Allow Negative Thoughts To Enter Your Mind For They Are The Weeds That Strange Confidence.

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Showing Off Is The Fool's Idea Of Glory.

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Life Is Wide, Limitless. There Is No Border, No Frontier.

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A Fight Is Not Won By One Punch Or Kick. Either Learn To Endure Or Hire A Bodyguard.

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I Hope Martial Artists Are More Interested In The Root Of Martial Arts And Not The Different Decorative Branches, Flowers Or Leaves. It Is Futile To Argue As To Which Leaf, Which Design Of Branches, Or Which Attractive Flower You Like; When You Understand The Root, You Understand All Its Blossoming.

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Anxiety Is The Gap Between The Now And The Then. So If You Are In The Now, You Can't Be Anxious, Because Your Excitement Flows Immediately Into Ongoing Spontaneous Activity.

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The Highest Art Is No Art. The Best Form Is No Form.

Never Trouble Trouble Till Trouble Troubles You. I'll Not Willingly Offend, Nor Be Easily Offended.

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I Did What I Came Here To Do. What I've Done I've Done With Sincerity And To The Best Of My Ability. You Can't Expect Much More From Life.

Sorrows Are Our Best Educator. A Man Can See Further Through A Tear Than A Telescope.

Everyone Wants To Learn How To Win, But No One Wants To Learn How To Accept Defeat.

The Idea Is That Flowing Water Never Goes Stale, So Just Keep On Flowing.

Fear Comes From Uncertainty; We Can Eliminate The Fear Within Us When We Know Ourselves Better.

Life Itself Is Your Teacher, And You Are In A State Of Constant Learning.

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Those Who Are Unaware They Are Walking In Darkness Will Never Seek The Light.

Don’t Indulge In Any Unnecessary, Sophisticated Moves

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If You Make An Ass Out Of Yourself, There Will Always Be Someone To Ride You.

To Be Honest To Oneself, And That Is Very Hard To Do.

What You Habitually Think Largely Determines What You Will Ultimately Become.

Understanding Comes About Through Feeling, From Moment To Moment In The Mirror Of Relationship.

Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth. To Me, The Function And Duty Of A Quality Human Being Is The Sincere And Honest Development Of One's Potential.

What Comes After Victory? Why Do People Value Victory So Much? What Is 'glory'? What Kind Of Victory Is 'glorious'?

The Height Of Cultivation Always Runs To Simplicity.

Having Totality Means Being Capable Of Following "what Is," Because "what Is" Is Constantly Moving And Constantly Changing. If One Is Anchored To A Particular View, One Will Not Be Able To Follow The Swift Movement Of "what Is.

Knowledge Earns You Power, Character Earns You Respect.

Everybody Has To Think For Himself. A Right Way For A Big Man May Not Be A Right Way For A Small Man. A Right Way For Someone Who Is Slow May Not Be A Right Way For Someone Who Is Quick. Each Person Must Understand His Weaknesses And His Strengths.

The Timeless Moment. - The "moment" Has No Yesterday Or Tomorrow. It Is Not The Result Of Thought And Therefore Has No Time.

Make At Least One Definite Move Daily Toward Your Goal.

Empty Your Cup So That It May Be Filled; Become Devoid To Gain Totality.

Loneliness Is Only An Opportunity To Cut Adrift And Find Yourself. In Solitude You Are Least Alone.

To Me Defeat In Anything Is Merely Temporary. Defeat Simply Tells Me That Something Is Wrong In My Doing; It Is A Path Leading To Success And Truth.

Temporary Defeat

Each Moment That Passes Changes You...you Can't Even Own Yourself. How Can You Ever Hope To Own Anyone Or Anything Else.

All Martial Art Is Simply An Honest Expression Of One's Body — With A Lot Of Deception In Between.

Faith Makes It Possible To Achieve That Which Man's Mind Can Conceive And Believe.

Either You Understand Or You Don't, And That Is That.

I Don't Want To Do Anything Halfway. It Has To Be Perfect.

To Me, Racial Barriers Do Not Exist In Reality. If I Say That 'everyone Under The Sun Is A Member Of A Universal Family,' You May Think That I Am Bluffing And Being Idealistic. But If Anyone Still Believes In Racial Differences, I Think He Is Too Backward And Narrow In His Perspective. Perhaps He Still Does Not Understand Man's Equality And Love.

Running Water Never Grows Stale.

In Building A Statue, A Sculptor Doesn't Keep Adding Clay To His Subject. Actually, He Keeps Chiseling Away At The Nonessentials Until The Truth Of His Creation Is Revealed Without Obstruction.

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