Bjj Inspirational Quotes

I've learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen. ~ Cameron Conaway

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive. ~ Cameron Conaway

This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it. ~ Chris Matakas

I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it. ~ Chris Matakas

The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday? ~ Chris Matakas

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations. ~ Chris Matakas

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. ~ Chris Matakas

There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it. ~ Chris Matakas

Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible. ~ Chris Matakas

In Jiu Jitsu an inch is a mile, and a second is an eternity. Use each wisely. ~ Chris Matakas

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself. ~ Chris Matakas

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides. ~ Chris Matakas

Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society. ~ Chris Matakas

For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. ~ Chris Matakas

All of Jiu Jitsu is finding a way to get your partner to willingly go where you want him to go in the first place. ~ Chris Matakas

Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark! ~ Odille Rault

Stop taking care of my life, if you want to have time to take care of yours! ~ Cleber Barros

We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place. ~ Chris Matakas

In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand. ~ Chris Matakas

Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge. ~ Chris Matakas

An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek. ~ Chris Matakas

To achieve anything we must grind, but to enjoy anything we must flow. ~ Chris Matakas

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be. ~ Chris Matakas

Jiu Jitsu removes the societal walls that we have been forced to unknowingly hold up with our adopted beliefs. It removes the limits of common thought, and allows for expression of our highest ideals. ~ Chris Matakas

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life. ~ Chris Matakas

An absolutely perfect world would be a deadly boring place. There's some kind of perfection in slight imperfection. ~ Sahara Sanders

Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand. ~ Chris Matakas

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it. ~ Sam Harris

Along with people willing to disappoint you for being beyond ordinary, there also are many individuals who adore you immensely. ~ Sahara Sanders

The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set. ~ Chris Matakas

Dreams don't get done until they are due. ~ Richie Norton

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. ~ Alfred Armand Montapert

I was ready for huge transformation, emerging from the chrysalis, like the butterfly, a true metamorphosis, alive in all my beauty. ~ Leeza Donatella

Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish. ~ Chris Matakas

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us. ~ Chris Matakas

Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken. ~ Chris Matakas

We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves. ~ Chris Matakas

True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful. ~ Chris Matakas

The day you were born you were given power to create yourself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary. ~ Kaiden Blake

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises. ~ Jojo Moyes

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge. ~ Chris Matakas

Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man. ~ Chris Matakas

Winners win, Losers lose. It's YOU who decides what you want to be ~ Andrew Rozario

If you Never Give Up, you can Beat The Best !! ~ Manu Pratap

Denominations divide while the cross unites. ~ Deborah Brodie

Lailah, always remember that you are light that bring illumination to many people across the world. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your imagination is a wonderland full of realities. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words! ~ Robbie Thomas

If u wanna be bright future.. you have to work hard today ~ Prasanth KPS

Try to enjoy the present - for that is all we have. Yesterday is but a memory and tomorrow is yet a dream… ~ Grant Langley

Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat. ~ Deborah Brodie

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered. ~ Shujoy Chowdhury

Power of words are infinity, use them wisely. Power of words can change the world or destroy ~ Andrew Rozario

If you are fortunate enough to have a particular activity with which you find greatest joy and technical success, it is your responsibility as a growing human being to continue that study. Whatever your endeavor, if you can expand upon the knowledge in your strongest subject, that new found understanding of all things will trickle down to every other area of your life. ~ Chris Matakas

I have a dream." "Is your dream very big?" "No." "Well is it very grand?" "Not either." "Neither?" "Neither." "What is it then?" "It is very shiny. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny. ~ Vonae Deyshawn

My God and your God don't fight. Why do we? ~ Vinita Kinra

Learning starts with single word "WHY". ~ Saadshah

In the middle of all the ordinary--something extraordinary shows up. ~ KariAnne Wood

Don't try to comfort others try be comfortable with yourself ;) ~ Akshay Dubey

No matter what happens in this lifetime, we are never alone. ~ Q.M. Herrera

You can do more than you think ~ Chris Guillebeau

When amazing people with an unshakable instinct for survibal put together, they can achieve what might seem impossible to others. ~ Vishwas Chavan

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! ~ Robbie Thomas

Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.

-Oromis ~ Christopher Paolini

Lead a life of wonder and not wondering ~ Smitha Murthy

Don't follow your dreams, chase them ~ Portia Sarris

Life is not about chances, thinkings or probabilities, life is about atitudes ~ Rodrigo Mortara Almeida

I believe the best use of ones life is to serve others through a medium you are most passionate. Jiu Jitsu allows me the opportunity to give someone my time in the pursuit of THEIR dreams. It affords me the gift of willingly spending my non-redeemable life in the interest of another. Jiu JItsu has given me the opportunity to positively influence countless lives. ~ Chris Matakas

I use my understanding of jiu jitsu as a road map to learn other activities. I look for the similarities between the two, and use jiu jitsu as an allegory for whatever my new practice may be. I truly believe once you have learned one thing, you have learned all things because you have learned how to learn. ~ Chris Matakas

You can customize tomorrow, only if you train your brain today! Don't believe in Luck, only believe in hard work ~ Andrew Rozario

Keep on dreaming, you will get to your destination. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no more valuable skill than studentship. The farther we go down one area of human understanding, the more we see the corollaries that all activities share. Everything I do for the rest of my life, all the skills I acquire, will be made possible because of my time spent on the mats. It has revealed a symbiosis between all things that I never knew existed. ~ Chris Matakas

I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Virtues untie the knots that life could sometimes bring our way and they glide us through easily. ~ Omoakhuana Anthonia

Some people emit negative fumes, while others vibrate POSITIVE ENERGY. Stay close to the Positive ones; otherwise you will be smoked to death.-RVM ~ Inspirational Motivational

Be the person you needed when you needed help. ~ Rain Cooper

Look closely at your greatest thoughts about yourself. That's your future. ~ Quang Nguyen

To base your self worth relative to others is to play a losing game. If you are at the bottom, you will be filled with self-loathing. If you are at the top, you will be filled with self-aggrandizement and ego. This will most certainly be one of your greatest obstacles to achieving whatever degree of mastery you are capable. ~ Chris Matakas

Breaking out of your comfort zone to do the things that are not only difficult but even seemingly impossible, can bring incredible results. ~ Ken Gleed

Truth always prevails, as it packs the mightiest punch of them all! ~ Dee Waldeck

Remember that a fresh breath of life follows every sigh of exasperation. Breathe in, breathe out, and ENJOY every moment. It is how everything begins and ends. - Charmainism ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

If we all talked to each other in this way, with warm camaraderie and complete non-judgement, much pain would be spared and happiness generated. ~ Sarah Krasnostein

Having charged your heart and brain with a cup of coffee, you're ready to face the challenges of life. ~ Sahara Sanders

Cut your big mountain into smaller hills, and then start to climb. Before you know it, you're done! ~ Miranda A. Uyeh

Forgot what you think and remember what you feel. ~ Nikki Rowe

Even the "proper way" of how we express our love for another is imposed on us and dictated by societies we live in. ~ Tatjana Ostojic

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you. ~ Allen Parker

Your inner strength will lead you into a victorious future ~ Sl Jones

Every life is a story make your life a best seller. ~ Inspirational Sayings

How can you be inspired if you do not surround yourself with the things that inspire you? ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

She's the reason people feels loved and believed in the goodness in people .She's the reason thousand smiles ... ~ Imran Shaikh

Sometimes, good things that go wrong are like seeds. They have to be buried for something bigger and better to sprout out of them. ~ Charles Samuel D'Monte

Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does! ~ C. JoyBell C.

The people that surround us mirror who we are. ~ Rob Martin