Samurai Quotes

“In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.”

“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.”

“A samurai was essentially a man of action.”

“Nearly all samurai practice Zen - it is the Way of Enlightenment." "Possibly the light of Zen is so strong that it has blinded me to its virtue." Yoshitoki smiled. "It is very good discipline for the mind, as the martial arts are for the body." Kenmotsu looked very smug as he said this. "I do Zazen twice a week." "I think it will do no-one any harm, though personally I find it more pleasant to think than to empty my mind of thought.”

“Be a Samurai.Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.”

“How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?”

“The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.”

“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...”

“Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not”

“I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.”