Take some time to meditate on these words of wisdom
 "Karate Ni Sente Nashi"
-- There is No First Attack in Karate.
-- A calligraphy from the Nagamine honbu dojo.
"Mazu Sono Kokoro Wo Tadase"
-- First purify your mind.
-- A calligraphy from the Nagamine honbu dojo.
Karate begins with courtesy and ends with it. Therefore,
we must be courteous to seniors, juniors, friends, and
even foes.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
Even after many years, kata practice is never finished,
for there is always something new to be learned about
executing a movement.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within
yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only
through self-discipline, hard training, and your own
creative efforts.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
A karateman must always try to keep his body and mind
clean and right.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
The dojo is the place where courage is fostered and
superior human nature is bred through the ecstacy of
sweating in hard work. It is the sacred place where the
human spirit is polished.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
Karate ultimately produces in the individual a vital
concentration of energy that expands to heroic proportions
in times of crisis.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity
lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper
training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
If he practices three times, I must practice six times.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
Once when asked for a brief definition of a good Karate
person, Osensei Shoshin Nagamine replied: Kisshu fushin,
Oni te hotoke kokoro. A demon's hand, a saint's heart.
-- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
No matter how you may excel in the art of te, and in your
scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your
behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.
-- Teijunsoku (Nago Oyakata)
True art has no goal and no purpose.
-- Master Awa, Kyudo master
One is eager to understand and explain everything.
But when a man tries to express what he thinks he has
understood, he is like an invalid. Words are his prison.
-- Kosei Takano, Kendo master
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