CODE OF HONOR
A Code of Honor provides direction and boundaries in life.
Here’s mine:
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#1. VISION
The warrior has a strong, defined vision of exactly where he wants to go. Until the vision is defined, a person has no destination. What is your vision for yourself and future?
Champions art made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
— Mohammed Ali
Superficial goals lead to superficial results.
— Attila The Hun
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#2. COURAGE
The warrior knows that courage will be essential on his warrior quest. What she must also understand is that courage is not the absence of fear, for that is impossible. Courage is to first start and then continue moving forward toward the vision even know fear exists. What stops you from moving forward?
Whenever you meet difficult situations, dash forward bravely and joyfully.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure
It is men who endure toil in dear danger that achieve glorious deeds, and is a wonderful thing to live with scourge and to die leaving behind an everlasting renown.
— Alexander The Great
Take arrows in your forehead, but never in your back.
— Samurai Maxim
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#3. DISCIPLINE
Without discipline, the warrior can do nothing. Not only must the warrior be prepared to do the things it takes to make his vision a reality, he must also take action. This action, taken every day, is discipline personified. In what area of your life can you be more disciplined?
Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.
— Sun Tzu
Day after day training your heart out, refining your technique: use the wind to defeat many. This is the discipline of the warrior.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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#4. SELF-CONTROL
A warrior will learn to understand that the only things you can truly control in life are her own thoughts, emotions, and actions. This control over one’s self is the challenge that the warrior must face every day. The warrior must accept responsibility for her thoughts and her actions if she is ever to reach true warrior status. Where in your life can you benefit from more self-control?
If a man does his best, what else is there?
— George S. Patton
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#5. PATIENCE
The warrior knows that any vision worth pursuing is going to take a long time to achieve. There will be many days along the warrior’s path when it may not seem that progress is taking place. The warrior must embrace these days and push forward, knowing that staying the course is the only way to eventually reach the goal. How can you increase your patience to fulfill your dream?
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop
— Confucius
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever lengthening, ever ascending, ever improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, self far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
— Sir Winston Churchillt
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#6. DESIRE
If the warrior does not stand for something, she will eventually fall for anything. The warrior must believe strongly in her quest and constantly keep in place reminders of why the vision was important in the first place. What reminders can you use to keep your desire burning?
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
— Alexander The Great
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#7. CONFIDENCE
The warrior that achieves the highest vision is the one who has made the most errors along the way. A warrior must recognize that success is built not on success, but on past mistakes, mishaps, and errors. The warrior embraces these errors, moves forward, and make sure not to make the same mistakes again. How can you see only feedback and not failure?
Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.
— Samurai General Kenshin Uesugi
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#8. RESILIENCE
The warrior that achieves the highest vision is the one who has made the most errors along the way. A warrior must recognize that success is built not on success, but on past mistakes, mishaps, and errors. The warrior embraces these errors, moves forward, and make sure not to make the same mistakes again. How can you see only feedback and not failure?
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
— Japanese Proverb
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
— Mohammed Ali
Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to out in a greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong with what I’m I doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
— Bruce Lee
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#9. COMMITMENT
The warrior knows that the achievement of a vision can be completed only with full and focused commitment. The warrior must remove any distractions and elements from his life that will jeopardize the fulfillment of his goals. Until the warrior has fully committed, the vision is just a dream. What can you do to demonstrate your commitment to your vision?
He who has why to live for can bear almost any how.
— Frederick Nietzsche
With it or on it. (Come back with your shield or come back on it.)
— Ancient Spartan Motto
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#10. RESPECT
The warrior is not filled with hatred, nor is she who wrong doer to others. The warrior is someone who respects all. This is the ultimate concept for the warrior who must battle with an opponent. The warrior recognizes that without the opponent doing her best to complete her vision, the warrior’s experience would be cheapened. The warrior must respect her opponent, her teacher, her team, and her family. Without of respect in place, the warrior wannabe is nothing more than a glorified thug. What steps can you take to create more respect for others?
The Way of the Warrior is based on humility, love, and serenity: the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship.
— Morihei Ueshiba
The warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and except sit in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as grounds for regret, but as a living challenge.
— Carlos Castaneda
The mind of the warrior, in the end, becomes nothing more than seeing things as they truly are in realizing the beauty in that simplicity.
— Musashi
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