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“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”

Sir Winston Churchill

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.”
General George S. Patton

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat”
Richard Marcinko

“On the day of victory no fatigue is felt”

German Proverb

“Good judgement is the result of experience, and experience the result of bad judgement”
Mark Twain

“Call no man happy till he is dead”Aeschylus, Ancient Greek playwright

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes”Gautama B.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”Confucius

“Overnight success feels great after playing 10 years in honky-tonks behind chicken wire”Willie Nelson

“For how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
Defending the ashes of his father
And the temple of the gods?”
TB MacCauley

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill

“In the struggle between the stone and water, in time, the water wins”
Japanese Proverb

“In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”Jack Welch

“There is no comfort in the growth zone and no growth in the comfort zone”Unknown

“Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you”Gypsy saying

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” #quote #strategy #Napoleon
~ Napoleon Bonaparte. 

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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”
Napoleon Bonaparte.

“When it comes to performance standards, It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate”
Jocko Willink

“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”
Bruce Lee

“In great and dangerous operations one must not think but act”

• The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.

  Gichin Funakoshi

    
• True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

  Gichin Funakoshi

    
• When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• You may train for a 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 a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• You must ignore the bad and adopt the good.

  Gichin Funakoshi   
• Spirit first, technique second.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms.

  Gichin Funakoshi

    
• There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.

  Gichin Funakoshi
• The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

     
• When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  
  
• Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

  Gichin Funakoshi