Morihei Ueshiba quotes

" Atemi accounts for 99% of Aikido. " # Responsibility

" I am the Universe. " # Universe

" Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage. " # Education

" Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy. " # Leaders and Leadership # Love # Enthusiasm

" In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. " # Age and Aging # Mind # Techniques

" Aikido is Love. " # Love

" As your Bujutsu [Martial Technique] training approaches perfection you will be able to detect the suki [opening/weakness] [in your enemy's technique], even before he can, and as if to satisfy some deficiency in him, you can fill the suki with your technique. (p. 26) " # Simplicity # Enemies # Techniques

" True Budo is practiced not only to destroy an enemy, it must also make him, or his own will, gladly lose his spirit (seishin) to oppose you. (p. 26) " # Enemies # Practice # Friends and Friendship

" When facing the realm of life and death in the form of an enemy's sword, one must be firmly settled in mind and body, and not at all intimidated; without providing your opponent the slightest opening, control his mind in a flash and move where you will - straight, diagonally, or in any other appropriate direction. (p. 31) " # Duty # Death and Dying # Love

" Regarding technique, from ancient times it has been said that movements must fly like lightning and attacks must strike like thunder. (p. 33) " # Techniques # Thoughts and Thinking # War