Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I try to learn every day and train as hard as I can.

The hardest fights I've had have been in the gym, not in the cage. It keeps you motivated. One day, you'll go in and feel like you can beat anybody in the world. The next day, you kind of get humbled. That's what keeps us coming back to train more and more.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

I am still learning.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

I want to get better and better at my craft.

Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great - or at least being active. You'll find your confidence. Without it, you're nothing. It's the remedy for everything.