Daily Inspiration

[Serpent]

I think it would be a very good idea if everyone posted on this thread with a thought, proverb, phrase, even a joke that they think might inspire and motivate us in our martial arts training.

Try to come to this thread every day and post your thought, even if it seems mudane. Maybe we can all help each other on to better things and greater improvements on a daily basis.

I'll start with an old one, but a good one.



A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

[Black Jack]

The key to victory is simple, then. FIGHT TOUGH. Give no quarter, because you'll get none. Pull no punches lest you be unable to punch at all. Show no mercy because you'll receive none.

-Lieutenant Jack Dempsey

[joedoe]

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

"You know the world's gone crazy when the best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, the French are calling Americans arrogant, and Germany doesn't want to go to war."

:D

[SevenStar]

we already have plenty of these threads

[shaolin kungfu]

good qoute joe

[joedoe]

Geez you guys are taking this thread war thing seriously aren't you? :D

[joedoe]

Originally posted by shaolin kungfu
good qoute joe

I liked it so much I made it my sig :D

[hongkong fuey]

He who works his land will have abundant food, But he who chases fantasies lacks judgement:D

[shaolin kungfu]

Time is gods money, dont waste it.

[joedoe]

Before you criticise someone you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticise them you are a mile away and you have their shoes :D

[shaolin kungfu]

he who stands on a toilet,
is high on pot.

[Serpent]

Ah, Joe, I love that one!

:D

[PHILBERT]

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
-Confucius

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-Chinese Proverb

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
-Japanese Proverb

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas Edison

[Kris]

We live as we dream.........alone.

-Joseph Conrad

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

pain is just weakness leaving the body.

[PHILBERT]

“Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.”

A cookie to who tells me who said that.

[jon]

The Simpsons.

" A glove slap in the little old face will get you satisfaction"

[PHILBERT]

Nope. Might have been on there, but that isnt who originally said it.

[Laughing Cow]

"If you want to get a snake out of a hole use someone else's arm"

[Goldenmane]

Winston Churchill

October 29, 1941.

Speaking to students and faculty of Harrow School, independent boarding school for boys in Middlesex, England.

:)

-geoff (where's my cookie?)

[PHILBERT]

On your computer in the Temporary Internet Files folder. I never said it was a cookie you could eat.

[Goldenmane]

Well golly...

Anywho...

I can't think of anything inspirational. Sorry guys.

-geoff

[Chang Style Novice]

Off-topically, if Eminem is the best rapper, Satan must be ice-skating right now. AceyAlone, Mr. Lif, Azeem, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS1, Big Daddy Kane, J-Live, Redman, Nas, C-Lo, Andre 3000, and many, many others are way beyond him in everything but marketable skin tone.

On-topically, see my signature. Sun Tzu wrote the winning strategy for any conflict in fewer than 50 words hundreds of years ago. Follow his advise and you will always win against equal opponents and minimize your losses against superior opponents.

[Black Jack]

"The harder you work, the luckier you get"

- Gary Player, golfer

"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wait paint on it and he will have to touch it to be sure"

- Jaeger's Facts (I find the above quote to be fitting in relationship to mysticism in the martial arts.)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

- Edmund Burke

"The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit"

- Morihei Ueshiba

[shaolin kungfu]

pain is weakness leaving the body

[fa_jing]

I used to think I was wrong, but I was mistaken


Train harder more Chi!

[fa_jing]

Make their defense crumble like Saltine crackers

The Martial Arts isn't like instant coffee or instant tea

Everyone wants to be a Kung Fu killer

Sparring is not optional

I cannot overemphasize the 1-2

-my sifu

[SaMantis]

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.


A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."


Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man."

[joedoe]

"Don't just go around hitting people"

Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong

[IronFist]

On-topically, see my signature. Sun Tzu wrote the winning strategy for any conflict in fewer than 50 words hundreds of years ago. Follow his advise and you will always win against equal opponents and minimize your losses against superior opponents.


__________________
A. When the enemy advances, we retreat!
B. When the enemy halts, we harass!
C. When the enemy seeks to avoid battle, we attack!
D. When the enemy retreats, we pursue!

Uh... I've added A-D to his statements.

So if your enemy is doing A, you are doing D, which is what your enemy wants you to do, so they will keep doing A, and you will lose?

Does that seem a bit circular to anyone else?

I think B should be reworded like this:

When the enemy stops, we talk ****.

IronFist

[joedoe]

A - D would work fine ... as long as your enemy is not also a student of Sun Tzu :D

[Laughing Cow]

"If you can’t manifest peace within yourself, how can you know of peace anywhere else!"

"The best way to avoid a fight is to create a situation in which there can be no fight."

[Serpent]

If at first you don't succeed, kill anyone that knows you tried.

[joedoe]

Don't leave for tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.

If at first you don't succeed, you're probably a loser.

If you love them, set them free. If they return it was meant to be. If they don't, then hunt them down and kill them.

[Serpent]

There's no trick to it, it's just a little trick.

[logic]

The strongest person in the world
is the individual that stands most alone.:)

[Sho]

The only reason for not training is rejuvenation.

[joedoe]

"If you want to fight me, there will be no mucking around. I will put you down" - my sifu

[Laughing Cow]

"It is only illegal if you get caught."

[Serpent]

Joe, your Sifu sounds cool! :)

[joedoe]

Originally posted by Serpent
Joe, your Sifu sounds cool! :)

He is a very good man. He was state champion back in Malaysia, then when he came out here to teach he had to face the traditional barrage of challengers, and he is still happy to face challenges (though most people are not stupid enough to challenge him). Obviously he passed the test :)

A very scary man, but a fantastically genuine and giving teacher. Couldn't imagine learning from anyone else.

[Serpent]

Joe, Check your PM's.

[Serpent]

Actually dude, your inbox is full!

Check your email! ;)

[joedoe]

Got your email and have replied.

Dunno why my PM box gets full all the time. :confused:

[Serpent]

It's a problem that a few people have for some reason.

There should be a *shrug* smilie, huh.

[shaolin kungfu]

I don't have that problem. Maybe cause nobody likes me.:(

[Serpent]

Aw...

:)

[joedoe]

I ain't that popular either, but it seems that a handful of messages is enough to fill up your PM box.

[Serpent]

D@mn forum gremlins...

[Laughing Cow]

Originally posted by joedoe
I ain't that popular either, but it seems that a handful of messages is enough to fill up your PM box.

Empty your "Sent Items" & "Tracked imessages" out.

This should make for extra space.

[Serpent]

Joe, another e-mail. ;)

[joedoe]

Originally posted by Laughing Cow


Empty your "Sent Items" & "Tracked imessages" out.

This should make for extra space.

Thanks LC. I never bothered to check those things out.

[jon]

One good turn - gets most of the bed sheet.

A friend in need - is a pest.

If at first you dont succeed - so much for sky diving.

A journey of a thousand miles - is made much faster with mechanised transport.




Thanks to Bender from Futurama I now have a new answer to all of lifes little 'problems'.
"Cheese it"

[prana]

one of my teachers explaining enlightenment to laymen...

"You cant explain to a tadpole what a tree looks like"

[logic]

Trying to achieve enlightenment is a rough path with many curves.
We Are only Human.;)

(But we can get up, Dust ourselves off, and climb back on that horse.)

[prana]

from my older teachers "anicha anicha anicha"

[prana]

from sadhana of Chenrezig,

'your enemies are your greatest teachers'

[Chang Style Novice]

From a Mekons song my friend's band covered last night:

"Destroy your safe and happy life before it is too late."

[scotty1]

Hippies :rolleyes: :)

[Swannee]

"Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends
below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character and man is their maker and their master."

James Allen "As Man Thinketh"

:)

[quiet man]

Fortune cookies say:

You might not be responsible for falling down, but you are for getting back up.

You live only once, but in that life you must die a thousand different deaths.

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

You cannot make your candle brighter by blowing out someone else's.

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

Pride feels no pain.

... and some funny stuff:

If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.

Don't get even, get odd.

God, I ask for patience -- and I want it right now!

[joedoe]

She offered her honour
He honoured her offer
So all night he was on her
And off her

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

there are distinct advantages to having genitals infested with puss dripping sores. such as never having to look for lubricant when preparing to masturbate.

- gunned down atrocity

[shaolin kungfu]

Thats just not right.:(

[prana]

Originally posted by shaolin kungfu
Thats just not right.:(

I like it, in fact, I love it. He is so honest and brutal about his statements, it's beautiful !

It's just another point of view, although seemingly a little wrathful.

[Chang Style Novice]

"It can be a pleasure to suffer from unwelcome truths."

-Jim Woodring

[FatherDog]

"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them."
-- Heisenberg

[joedoe]

"There are few things more satisfying than a good sh1t" - an old friend of mine.

[Serpent]

Joe, reminds me of this one:

"There is nothing as over-rated as a bad fvck
And nothing as under-rated as a good sh!t!"

:D

[joedoe]

Nice one :D

[Xebsball]

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears"

or something like that :D