What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

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.

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

In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

There is no first strike in Karate.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.