"Remember… you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique."— Bruce Lee
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."— Lao-Tzu
"When the student is ready, the master appears."— Buddhist proverb
"There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned."— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
"Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought."— Matsu Basho
"Cry in the dojo. Laugh on the battlefield."— Unknown
"Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly."— Theodore Roosevelt
"The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire."— Mark Twain
"Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit."— Joe Lewis
"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