You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump … - Gichin Funakoshi

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Gichin Funakoshi

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.

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The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

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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.

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One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.

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True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

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