The spirit of karate practice and the elements of training are applicable to each and every aspect of our daily lives.

Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

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.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

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.

Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.