If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

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.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

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