Judo quotes

• Success is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity.
• First know yourself, and then know others.
  - Gichin Funakoshi, founder of karate
• Maximum Efficiency, Minimum Effort.
• Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
• You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
  - Kahlil Gibran
• A Chinese story, kind of a Taoistic story about a farmer. One day, his horse ran away, and all the neighbors gathered in the evening and said 'that's too bad.' He said 'maybe.' Next day, the horse came back and brought with it seven wild horses. 'Wow!' they said, 'Aren't you lucky!' He said 'maybe.' He next day, his son grappled with one of these wild horses and tried to break it in, and he got thrown and broke his leg. And all the neighbors said 'oh, that's too bad that your son broke his leg.' He said, 'maybe.' The next day, the conscription officers came around, gathering young men for the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. And the visitors all came around and said 'Isn't that great! Your son got out.' He said, 'maybe.' You see, you never really know in which direction progress lies.
  - Alan Watts
• Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.
  - Jigoro Kano
• Learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself.
• A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
• The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
  - Francis Bacon
• It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog that counts.
• There are two types of people in the world. Those that find excuses and those that find a way.
• In Judo, as in life, when something blocks your path, step aside and move around it.
• It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
  - Alfred Adler
• I hear and I forget
  I see and I remember
  I do and I understand.

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