It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.