1- "Tough isn't how you act, it's how you train"- Anon
2-"Our greatest glory is not in falling but in rising every time we fall" - Confucious
3- "The only thing that stands between a person & what he wants in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible"- Anon
4- "The greatest strides in learning are made on the days with the greatest excuses not to train"- John Leabo
5-"A Black Belt covers 2 inches of your ass, you have to cover the rest." -Royce Gracie
6- "Life is not waiting for the storm to pass but learning how to dance in the rain" - Viviane Greene
7- "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely"- Karen Kaiser Clark
8- "The goal of a sport is to achieve mastery over others; the goal of a martial art is to achieve mastery over yourself."- Paul Wagner
9- "Train for what happens most and you will be able to handle most of what happens"- Marc McYoung
10- "Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. it's like fire. If you control it, it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you & destroy you" - Cus Damato (trainer of Mike Tyson)
11- "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill
12- "The ability to ignore pain & suffering when all you have to do is quit, is an asset that extends far outside fighting and the gym."- John Leabo
13- "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body. But rather a skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out & loudly proclaiming 'wow what a ride"-Anon
14- "Winning trophies or medals is insignificant. What's important is cultivating yourself to be the best Martial Artist & person you can be and confirming the process with the ultimate judge, yourself"- John Leabo
15- "The proof of the pudding (training) is in the eating (fighting ability)" -William Shakespeare with a Leabo spin
16- "Sometimes your the hammer, sometimes your the nail. Learn from being both."- Anon
17- "The greatest fighters are those who make themselves their greatest opponents"- Anon
18- "Courage seperates dreamers from achievers."- Anon
19- A coward and a hero both feel fear the same way. It's what they do with it that makes the difference." -Cus Damato
20- "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great pains with cheerfullness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."- Aristotle
21- "A Black Belt is a White Belt that never gave up." - Anon
22- "Man's finest hour is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause, and lies exhausted on the battlefield Victorious."- Vince Lombardi
23- "Victory is reserved for those willing to pay the price."- Anon
24- "Everyman has his strengths and weaknesses. In combat remember your strengths, in training remember your weaknesses."- John Leabo
25- "Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you were going to die tomorrow."- Mahatma Ghandi
26- "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."- Mark Twain
27- "Many of life's failures are from people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."- Thomas Edison
28- "Life is a food chain: Be at the top or be on the menu."- Frank Borrelli
29- "Death smiles at us all, Warriors smile back."- Anon
30- "With the fist fear the young adept, with the weapon, fear the old master." -Old Chinese Proverb
31- "As little force as possible but as much force as necessary." - Prof Florendo Visitation
32- "Better to fail with honor then to suceed by fraud."- Sophocles
33- "A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct, even though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."- Walter Lippman
34- "In matters of style swim with the current, in manners of principle, stand like a rock."- Thomas Jefferson
35- "A thousand mile journey begins with one step, even an elephant can be eaten if done one bite at a time." -Anon
36- "With great suffering comes great rewards."- John Leabo
37- Karate here (points to head), Karate here (points to heart), Karate never here (points to belt).-Mister Miyagi from the movie Karate Kid
38- "There comes a time in every battle when both sides consider themselves beaten. In those times, the one who continues to press the attack will emerge the victor."- Robert E. Lee
39- "Whether the rock hits the mirror, or the mirror hits the rock, it's always bad to be the mirror. In this life you better be the fucking rock."- Carl Cestari
40- "Violence is not always the answer., but when it is the answer it's the only answer."- Anon
41- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit."- Aristotle
42- "Your habits are either your best servents or your worst masters."- Wayne Pickering
43- "I'm always trying to do the things I can't do; that's how I get to do them."- Picasso
44- "Learning to defend yourself is a skill you will rarely ever need, but when it is needd you could have never paid enough for it."- Anon
45- "The poor man sacrifices his health to acquire wealth, the rich man spends his wealth trying to regain his health, the wise man knows his health is his wealth."- John Leabo
46- "The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."- W James
47- "People doubt what you say but believe what you do."- Lewis Cass
48- "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."- McEwan
49- "You can accumulate all the riches in the world but you will only be able to take with you in death that which you gave away in life."- John Leabo
50- "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."- Old American Indian Proverb
