Hi Mike, welcome to the board. Congratulations for finding yourself on the path of traditional martial arts, I hope your efforts bear fruit.
The phrase you're going for, it looks like, is
名誉と尊厳を持って生きるために, "(for the sake of/in order) to live with honor and dignity." I would romanize this as
Meiyo to songen (w)o motte ikiru tame ni
If you are going to write the Japanese yourself, I would recommend you get acquainted with the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, and familiarize yourself with the correct stroke order of kanji, as there are several issues with the characters you wrote. Some are aesthetics that just make the kanji look unbalanced or ill-formed--a common issue when someone who hasn't learned the language tries to copy the characters--but some are outright mistakes (missing strokes or strokes not fully intersecting where they should) or writing what looks like the wrong character (ろ→る、your に looks more like ん with an extra line) .
We do have a
Learning Japanese board as well as one for
translations requests, which you can use in the future.
Learning how to write Japanese may as well be accompanied by an attempt to learn the language, if only on a basic level. We are happy to assist with this to the best of our abilities. I understand if that's not your intention and you don't want to go through all that hassle, in which case I recommend just using a Japanese font and typing it out with the IME (Japanese keyboard), then check your results with jisho.org or google translate (which gives you a
romanization of your entered phrase underneath the Japanese), or get your work proofread here. Better yet, if this is part of a dojo-kun or something that is already written somewhere, try to use the original phrasing exactly, to avoid mistakes. For serious artistic endeavors, I would hire an experienced calligrapher to create an original work for you to use.
