You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.

Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.

Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands Karate-do is never easily drawn into a fight.