"Attitude determines your Altitude. Your attitude will define you."
—Coach Nick Siciliano
"It's the little things that'll kill ya the most... not the big things; it's the little things. Take care of the little things..."
—Coach Jeff Dillman
"The gap between where you are, and where you want to be – is called FRUSTRATION. Frustration is eliminated by Education and Action."
—Alwyn Cosgrove
"Your level of expectation determines your level of achievement."
—unknown
"The 'R' in 'relationship' stands for 'respect', because any relationship begins with 'Respect'."
—crasher
"Rape and Betrayal...Betrayal and Rape...are pretty much the same."
—crasher
"Stupid martial artists, make martial arts stupid. They bring more than dishonor to themselves."
—crasher
"...in the end when you have to open your eyes to what the relationship/friendship is, and realize how cheap it was [to him]... makes you feel dirtier than a whore."
—crasher
"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile... But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me."
—unknown
"There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will."
—Unknown
"Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"
—Joanne Kathleen Rowling
"One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope."
—Steven Deitz
“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
—Veronica Roth, Insurgent
"Great acts are made up of small deeds."
—Lao Tzu
"Your penis betrayed you, son. Made you think stupid. It won't be the last time that happens.”
—Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
—Mineko Iwasaki
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
“A black hole is a region in space that sucks everything in, and gives nothing back--not even light can escape. Do not be a 'black hole' in life--ever consuming and never giving. Rather, be a light unto the world [Matthew 5:14]."
—crasher
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."
—Tom Bodett
“Treat people as they are, and you make them worse. Treat them as they could be, and they become that."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Think hard before you take cheap shots at your friends. Because in one cheap shot, you can start everything...AND END everything.
—crasher
When a friend lays down for you after you kick them a million times...Buddy, the million PLUS one time you kick them again, you've well-earned your black eye.
—crasher
When you have trampled me, beat me to a pulp, and leave me as a bloodied ball on the ground... I VOW to rise above, as the phoenix from ashes, and I will Dominate and Destroy.
—crasher
One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
—Sun Tzu (Art of War)
My advantage over you is this–I know who I am.
—crasher
There will always be those shallow people who kiss your ass and shine the brightest light upon you. But when the lips are dry and the light is gone, so too, shall they fade away.
On the other hand, my actions have already spoken for me–for loyalty, sacrifice, strength, and honor. They stand even in the dark. I have never failed a friend.
—crasher
Actions speak louder than words. Real substance, real character--cannot be bought or traded for. Ass-kissing, however is cheap, and blows away like smoke at the faintest breeze.
—crasher
“Half the image is created in the camera; the other half [of the image] is created in the darkroom.”
—Ansel Adams
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
—Ansel Adams
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
—Ansel Adams
He who has called me a bitch, is more than likely to have been an ass, first.
—crasher
I overestimated you; shame on me. You underestimated me; shame on you, for that would be your greatest mistake. For I will come like a thief in the night, as a phantom, to demand justice due to me with honor and truth on my side. Nil Inultum Remanebit. Nothing Unavenged Remains.
—crasher
The only difference between your friends and your enemies is you know who your enemies are.
—Unknown
Its funny how the one person you'd take a bullet for, tends to always be the one behind the gun.
—Unknown
"You can never forget the people who change your life. You become a different person, and everything you do is slightly altered by what they taught you."
—Ryanna Porter
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
—Octavia Butler
"The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after all, is what life is finally about."
—Nels J.S. Ferre
"With clothes the new are best; with friends the old are best."
—Chinese Proverb
"Life is full of people who will make you laugh, cry, smile until your face hurts, and so happy that you think you'll burst. But the ones who leave their footprints on your soul are the ones that keep your life going."
—Natalie Bernot
"Friends bring the most joy and the most pain. But they always find a way to mend your heart back together after they break it."
—Noelle Daly
“The difference between heaven and hell is 18 inches. That’s the distance between your head and your heart.”
—Gino Mingo, ("18"—The Difference Between Succes and Failure, Todd Durkin)
Persistance of Vision. If you have a vision, PERSIST, never desist. If you are searching to find an answer or understand something, PERSIST do not desist. Persistance will lead you to uncover the truths and get results no matter what you do in life. But always persist with humility of spirit.
—crasher
The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. Put the work in, and you'll get results.
—Gerald McCoy (talking with Todd Durkin)
Set a goal, and reach it.
—Gerald McCoy (talking with Todd Durkin)
Every now and then, you have to let your "inner FU" out! It's not only good for you, but good for others. Nooone tames this beast!
Go ahead...unleash your inner FU!
—crasher (copyright 2012, shirt idea coming soon)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
—Winston Churchill
It takes strength to be firm and it takes courage to be gentle.
It takes strength to conquer and it takes courage to surrender.
It takes strength to be certain and it takes courage to have doubt.
It takes strength to fit in and it takes courage to stand out.
It takes strength to feel a friend's pain and it takes courage to feel your own pain.
It takes strength to endure abuse and it takes courage to stop it.
It takes strength to stand alone and it takes courage to lean on another.
It takes strength to love and it takes courage to be loved.
It takes strength to survive and it takes courage to live.
—Unknown
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
—Dumbledore, Harry Potter
Talk is cheap; Action is priceless.
Words & promises kept = Action = Priceless.
Words & promises broken = Talk = Cheap.
—crasher
While it is easy to honor a teacher, you should even more so, honor a friend.
And he who does not honor a friend, has no honor at all.
—crasher
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
—Ernest Hemingway
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
—Albert Einstein
Being a martial artist doesn't automatically "magically" or divinely mean you have been endowed or that you have any inherent, god-given strength in character, loyalty, human decency, or honor or heart. Hopefully the discipline will bring out those qualities AND develop those qualities for greater good, but it's not always the case. Sometimes it just means they can hurt and kill people more efficiently. Sometimes it's just "skill" that a monkey could pick up too.
—crasher.
Skills do not make a whole person. They don't even make up a quarter of what is truly cherished and honored in a person. Strive for those three-quarters that make human-kind really remarkable and precious.
—crasher.
Friendship isn't convenience. Often in a real friendship, there is a lot that is NOT convenient at all. There is real action and effort. Friendship isn't reactionary either; there is real proactiveness--a flow going back and forth. You don't stop the ocean and tell it to "flow back only when I want you to". No. If you want "convenience", goto a fast-food joint; there are many "conveniences" in life. However when you have a real need and have real issues, be sure you have a friend that welcomes the "inconvenience" and weathers the storm.
—crasher
Life as we know it: Look kid, sometimes the reality is, you don't get a "happy ever after"... but the only thing you can do then, is make sure someone else does.
—crasher
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
—Henri Nouwen
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
—Aristotle
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
—Henri Nouwen
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
—Henry David Thoreau
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
—Baltasar Gracian
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
—Plautus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
—Epicurus
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
—John Leonard
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends—you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
—Alice Duer Miller
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
—Thomas A. Edison
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
—Muhammad Ali
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
—Arnold H. Glasow
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
—Pam Brown
The human capacity to care for others isn’t something trivial or something to be taken for granted. Rather, it is something we should cherish. Compassion is a marvel of human nature, a precious inner resource, and the foundation of our well-being and the harmony of our societies. If we seek happiness for ourselves, we should practice compassion: and if we seek happiness for others, we should also practice compassion.
—Dalai Lama
Sometimes when things get broken they can never be put back together the same way. Things can be mended and put back together as sort of a reminder of the old...but better to take those pieces and build something new and better altogether.
—crasher
I'm not upset that you lied to me;
I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
People are not disposable units. A man leads a lonely life when he surrounds himself with disposable people to get to where he wants.
—crasher
A bully comes in many forms...not always physical or overt intimidation. Sometimes, it's just "playing God" and cutting off all communication until it suits them. Sometimes it's playing mindgames and causing you to take more blame or responsibility for a situation you never caused: like starting a barfight, expecting no consequences; then blaming you when the bartender asks who threw the first punch.
—crasher
It takes courage to be real; it takes true character and integrity. It takes effort. Fake people are cowards.
—crasher
I pity the man whose word and promises and character are like smoke... pooof... and they're gone. None of it's real, except the breeze you feel blowin' up someones bum.
—crasher
Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your ...hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round-remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
—"Gentleman Jim" Corbett
When you leave home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you. It is your behavior that invites trouble from them.
—Gichin Funakoshi
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
—Walter Winchell
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
—Anon.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
—Goethe
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
―Oscar Wilde
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
―David Levithan
WHEN I am dead and over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, Though you should lean above me broken-hearted, I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted Than you are now.
― Sarah Teasedale
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
― Malcolm X
I could never understand betryal. I don't 'upgrade' people.
—crasher
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
—Mary Anne Radmacher
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
I am not your personal throw dummy that you can take cheap shots at, then toss in the trash when you're done with me.
—crasher
I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
—Muhammad Ali
Man imposes his own limitations. Don't set any
—Anthony Bailey
Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
—August Wilson
Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.
—Michael Jordan
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
—Michael Jordan
Cry in the dojo. Laugh on the battlefield.
—Samurai Maxim
One mind, any weapon.
—USMC martial arts instructor
Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain.
—Sun Tzu, Art of War
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
—Lao-Tzu
Train like you mean it!
—crasher
I am more than your wildest imagination. I am more than your worst nightmare. I am...your greatest mystery.
—crasher
At the end of the day, hold onto the things that really matter and that are dear; all else is rubbish and will pass eventually.
—crasher
When you look into the eye's of a stranger, you see nothing. But when you look into the eye's of a friend you see everything.
—Ali Aftab
Friendship is not a big fire that burns out in a day, but a little lamp that burn till life's last day.
—Anonymous
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
—Plutarch
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
—Eustache Deschamps
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
—Author Unknown
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
—Robert Brault
True friends stab you in the front.
—Oscar Wilde
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
—John Leonard
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau
Apologizing: does not always mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.
—Anon.
Every relationship has its problems but what makes it perfect is when you still want to be there when everything sucks.
—Anon.
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
—Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
—Grace Pulpit
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
—Author Unknown
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
—Dave Tyson Gentry
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
—Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
—Author Unknown
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendship is not a state of mind, it’s an act. It’s something you do, it’s not about whether you’re good or not, it’s not a reflection of you, it’s a balanced relationship between people. "
—Anon.
A friend will choose to stand in 6 feet of snow beside you during a blizzard, when it is entirely optional.
—crasher
Amica semper fidelis. Virtus et Honor. Ex imo corde.
"Loyal Friend Always. Strength & Honor. From the Heart."
I will never fail my Friends, nor leave a Friend behind.
