Quotes About Respect

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

I think everybody should like everybody.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

Be respectful of your Sensei.

It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Every old poem is sacred.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.