If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Do something everyday that scares you.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.