Ed Parker Quotes

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Martial arts has been a way of life for me since I was a young kid. It created a discipline and respect for everything. Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.