Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

I wasn't going to leave my men, and they were going to protect me.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.

I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.

I swear in front of my mother’s grave and in the presence of God, that I shall not hesitate to join her if this be necessary for the defense of the sovereignty which the nation has won at the cost of so much blood. I deem it a debt of conscience and honor to give my life for the sake of national sovereignty.

Where could death have found him but at the post of duty.

He who defends his money is a martyr, and who defends his religion is a martyr, and he who defends his honor is a martyr.

A good woman is one who loves her husband and loves her country and has no desire to run either of them.