Skip to content

The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all than you encounter.

— Morihei Ueshiba Inspire! What Great Leaders Do (2004)

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Morihei Ueshiba

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

True Budo is to accept the spirit of the universe, keep the peace of the world, correctly produce, protect and cultivate all beings in nature.

Always imagine yourself on the battlefield under the fiercest attack; never forget this crucial element of training.

Budo (1938)

Regarding technique, from ancient times it has been said that movements must fly like lightning and attacks must strike like thunder.

Budo (1938)

The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter — it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.

All Morihei Ueshiba quotes →

You may also like

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Morihei Ueshiba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.