Tony Jaa Quotes

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

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.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.