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“The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants ”
Gichin Funakoshi
“Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.”
Gichin Funakoshi, Karate-Do: My Way of Life
“Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state”
gichin funakoshi, The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master

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