Bushido Quotes

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...”
― Jean-Pierre Melville

“Rehearse your death every morning and night. Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to find freedom in the martial Way, and fulfill your duties without fault throughout your life.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

“With regards to the way of death, if you are prepared to die at any time, you will be able to meet your release from life with equanimity. As calamities are usually not as bad as anticipated beforehand, it is foolhardy to feel anxiety about tribulations not yet endured. Just accept that the worst possible fate for a man in service is to become a rōnin, or death by seppuku. Then nothing will faze you.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

“A kunoichi is married to her duty, and to death.”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“The Way of the warrior (bushido) is to be found in dying.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin

“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Legacy of A Sensei

“The Samurai lived by a code of honor, not unlike the code that you live by. It’s called the Bushido. It was never written down; was always something the Samurai knew, and it was handed down from one warrior to another. One of the tenets of the code is about justice. Not the pounding of a gavel on the bench of some judge who’s been appointed to pass judgment on people by some politician. No, malaka, this concept of justice is what you feel in your bones: to die when it is right and to strike when it is right.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade

“Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to find freedom in the martial Way, and fulfill your duties without fault throughout your life.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Bushidō is about experiencing life in every breath. Seeing life in the simplest of things. There is beauty and honor in that.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist

“Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.

In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

“Train to be able to defend yourself against any attack, and at the same time, retain your good heart towards other people. Don't allow bad people to turn your heart hard, but always be ready to defend yourself should you have to.”
― Bohdi Sanders, BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior

“On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, COMPLETE OKINAWA KARATE : Chin-na & Shuai-Jiao

“It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only are guardians of what was and is, but what will be.

—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +”
― douglas laurent

“. . . for any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Shorinjiryu Karate : A Dojo Guide

“True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Advanced Ryukyu Karate

“Depending on one’s point of view, Hagakure represents a mystical beauty intrinsic to the Japanese aesthetic experience, and a stoic but profound appreciation of the meaning of life and death.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Don't allow anyone to do your thinking for you. Think for yourself and live YOUR LIFE by YOUR RULES, not someone else's rules.”
― Bohdi Sanders, BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior

“It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only the guardians of what was and is, but what will be.

—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +”
― douglas laurent, The lady and the samurai

“This determination is my bushido. It’s my “way of the warrior.” It’s palpable, a fierceness I possess, a beautiful stubbornness and unwillingness to give up.”
― Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

“Coitadinhos ou coitadinhas não devem ir a campo de batalha. Só atrapalham. Alguém gostaria de ter um samurai chorando no meio da batalha? Tendo crise de nervos? Com depressão? Ou precisando de um cafuné? Sendo tão inofensivo que não suporte um comando enérgico ou uma advertência verbal? Este não é um guerreiro. É uma flor. Deve estar num vaso e servir de ornamento para ninguém tocar. Não resiste a mais leve brisa da manhã.”
― Jorge Kishikawa, ShinHagakure - Pensamentos de um Samurai Moderno - 3ª Edição Volume 1

“You told me once that being a samurai means “to serve”,’ said Jack. ‘That our duty is to our Emperor, our daimyo and our family. I didn’t understand at the time, but I now know what duty means. As samurai, we may have to kill, or be killed, if we want to protect those we serve and love.”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon

“LaForche for his standing, understood Christina’s seditious intents, and for that, he monitored and hated the rude Vixen of Woe. Innumerable times they had quarresquabbled, sometimes very loudly, both during and after class. Christina’s wit, as fast as her blade, for the most part won the scathingly bitter, single-edged dialogues, much to the chagrin and embarrassment of LaForche. It was no big secret that trying to deal with his Anti-Mr. Spock logic was like trying to cross a baking salt-flat desert mid-summer with nothing to drink or eat except stale crackers and a big jar of out-dated defunct Peter Pan peanut butter, its original “crunch” now being only pasty sand mouth goo. She often asked herself how could you argue against no mind. It was an unassuming study in stupility to say the least.

—Christina Brickley, The Lady and the Samurai”
― douglas laurent

“Stories of military exploits were repeated almost before boys left their mother’s breast. Does a little booby cry for any ache? The mother scolds him in this fashion: “What a coward to cry for a trifling pain! What will you do when your arm is cut off in battle? What when you are called upon to commit hara-kiri?”
― Inazō Nitobe, Bushido - The Soul of Japan

“Nur durch das Verständnis der Wege der anderen ist es möglich, den eigenen Weg zu definieren und zu erkennen.”
― Musashi Miyomoto, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy