This page contains a limited collection of martial arts related maxims. However, since The Martial Way is in concordance with the Way Of Life, thus these maxims also apply to daily life and hence to laypersons with no martial background whatsoever. So if you are a layperson, just read on! 
 
  • A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action - Samurai maxim
  • Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment - Lao-Tzu
  • Nothing is impossible to a willing mind - Books of Han Dynasty
  • When you seek it, you cannot find it - Zen riddle
  • For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? - Bhagavad Gita
  • Patience, the essential quality of a man(and woman too!) - Kwai-Koo-Tsu
  • Power of mind is infinite while brawn is limited - Koichi Tohei
  • Life unfolds on a great sheet called Time, and once finished it is gone forever - Chinese Adage
  • The mind should be nowhere in particular - Takuan
  • You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him - Bruce Lee
  • Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate - Chuang-Tzu
  • Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation - Lao-Tzu
  • Control your emotion or it will control you - Chinese Adage
  • The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life - Samurai maxim
  • 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 how 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
  • To know and to act are one and the same - Samurai maxim
  • In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time - Tsutomu Oshima
  • Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the Art becomes an artless Art, growing out of the unconscious - Daisetsu Suzuki
  • The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror. It grasps nothing. It expects nothing. It reflects but does not hold. Therefore, the perfect man can act without effort - Chuang-Tzu
  • The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be - Bruce Lee 

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