quotes to live by.

"what's the worst that can happen?"  -  no idea, but works for me... 

"The last thing I want to do is hurt you.... but it's still on the list"

"We are what we repeatedly do -  excellence then is not an act, but a habit" - Aristotle

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up"

"You're never too old to learn something stupid"  :-)

Don't eat yellow snow!

Always clean your glasses with your handkerchief before you blow your nose!

Some quotes I’ve recently shared via the facebook page (www.facebook.com/iainabernethy):

"Love those who persecute you because they are the instruments to your destiny" - Joseph Campbell

“You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.” - Stephen R. Covey

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” - Stephen R. Covey

"I don't want to live like I'm just another slave; I don't wanna live that way; I've got a purpose & a plan; I don't wanna live like a dead man. Dead man slipping through his twilight years; Coming to realise that he never faced his fears; But there aint no second chances, just regret & bitter tears; Then it's over." - Dead Man by The Have Nots

"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing; that resistance is overcome." - Freidrich Neitzsche

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading" (on a fish shaped bookmark I was given).

"When heaven is about to infer an important office on a man, it first embitters his heart in its purpose; it causes him to exert his bones and sinews; it makes his body suffer hunger; it inflicts upon him want and poverty and confounds his undertakings. In this way it stimulates his will, steels his nature and thus makes him capable of accomplishing that which he would otherwise be incapable of accomplishing." – Mencius (quoted by Gichin Funakoshi in Karate-Do Kyohan).

Protect yourself at all times.

I come to you with only Karate, empty Hands. I have no weapons.
But should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honour,
should it be a matter of life or death, right or wrong! Then here
are my weapons: Karate, my empty hands.
Grandmaster Ed Parker

"A man's no man at all unless he has power over himself"

Just taped that to our biscuit barrel.  This could get rough ...

Gary Chamberlain wrote:

"A man's no man at all unless he has power over himself"

Just taped that to our biscuit barrel.  This could get rough ...

Brilliant!

"Train persistantly and tirelessly every day; there is a saying 'Mastery is born in hard training.' Thousands of types of fighting arts come from one criterion, ten thousand methods come to the same essence." - Lam Sai Wing

"The running water is fresh, a worm cannot live in a door hinge." Lu Shi Chun Qu (The Spring and Autums of Lu Kin) on why we need to be up and moving around.  

‎"Attitude is contagious. Is yours worth catching?"

Gary Chamberlain wrote:

‎"Attitude is contagious. Is yours worth catching?"

I love it! Who said that?

All the best,

Iain

I saw it on one of my lads Charlie Brown pictures.

Haven't got a clue who wrote it first.

http://www.smileyme.com/home_decor/posters_art_prints/classroom/posters_...

Gary

Hi Gary,

I like it! I guess we could attribute it to Charles Schulz? Thanks for sharing.

All the best,

Iain

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.” ~ Sun Tzu

Not sure if he understood road rage but the principle of picking which things are worth arrest / hospital / dying for is pretty sound.

Gary

"There is no first strike in Karate"-Gishin Funakoshi

"The Martial way begins with one thousand days and is mastered ten thousand days of training"-Mas Oyamas

There you have it...My favorite quotes of Karate =)

I'll have a brew if you're making one.

me 1996 to 2012!

‎"Tough people win fights, smart people avoid them" ~ Me

Some things just come with age. I used to feel I'd let myself down if I walked away from a confrontation. Now I feel I've let myself down if I get drawn into one. Not sure when the switchover happened - probably when I grew up!

Gary

Gary Chamberlain wrote:

‎"Tough people win fights, smart people avoid them" ~ Me

Stealing that!

"Be kind to one another" - Ellen Degeneres

"I don't want to be champion of the world, I want to be champion of my world" - me

if you have to choose between cowardice or violence, choose violence - ghandi

if possible never hit, but if you have to hit, never hit softly (or something like that) - roosevelt

"Anyone with legitimate talent doesn’t need to tarnish others to market himself"

~ Ross Enamait

I don´t know who said it, but I think it describes very well the sense of our traditions:

"tradition is the handing on of fire not the worship of ashes"

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. 
Sun Tzu 

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. 
Sun Tzu 

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. 
Sun Tzu 

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. 
Sun Tzu 

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? 
Sun Tzu 

Two from Will Rogers circa 1930s

• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment

and specific advice

• Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco

never under estimate your opponent

never take what your opponent offers

stay low shoot straight and never give up

its better to give then to receive, so always give plenty of pain

violence breeds violence

My current favourite:

Al Peasland, being interviewed for Richard Barnes' recent podcast, said "there's a reason the windscreen is bigger than the rear-view mirror."

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. ...Jeffrey Gitomer

"Do not be struck by others.  Do not strike others.  The principle is the peace without incident."  Miyagi Chojun

Okinawan Proverbs

"Chu uyameru du uyame" - Respect others and they will respect you.

"Shikinoo chui shiihii shiru kurasuru" - Let’s live helping each other in this world.

"Shinjichi nu ada nayumi" - Kindness will never be wasted in any way.

Meigen (words of wisdom) by Nagato Sensei. 

• We have to trust the training we receive and try and get better at what we are taught, to the best of our ability.
•  Listen the best you can, train the best you can, and just feel for the training at this present moment.

"Two steps forward and one step back, is still one step forward."

A quote I read many years ago I saw attributed to Bruce Lee but whether he got it from someone else I don't know. Whatever, I've always liked it:

He who knows not knows not he knows not, he is an idiot - shun him.

He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is ignorant - teach him.

He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - wake him.

He who knows and knows he knows, he is a teacher - follow him.

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world” - Miyamoto Musashi