{"id":5660,"date":"2016-06-21T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2017-10-20T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T05:03:53","slug":"martial-arts-quotes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5660","title":{"rendered":"Martial Arts Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.<br \/>\n<em>~ Mohandas Gandhi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.<br \/>\n<em>~ William Francis Butler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has a plan until they\u2019ve been hit.<br \/>\n<em>~ Joe Lewis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.<br \/>\n<em>~ Matsu Basho<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.<br \/>\n<em>~ Napoleon Bonaparte<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.<br \/>\n<em>~ Author unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.<br \/>\n<em>~ Mencius<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.<br \/>\n<em>~ Theodore Roosevelt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.<br \/>\n<em>~ Hakuin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.<br \/>\n<em>~ Sun Tzu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.<br \/>\n<em>~ Bruce Lee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.<br \/>\n<em>~ Aristotle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Reproduced under fair-use and with credit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. ~ Mohandas Gandhi The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards. ~ William Francis Butler Everyone has a plan until they\u2019ve been hit. ~ Joe Lewis Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. ~ Matsu Basho Never interrupt your enemy when he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5660\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}