Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

It's what I've learned over the years that has pushed me beyond limits.

The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up."

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.