Bruce Lee

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

"Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality."

- Bruce Lee

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

- Bruce Lee

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

"Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

- Bruce Lee

"Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them."

- Bruce Lee

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

- Bruce Lee

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

- Bruce Lee

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

- Bruce Lee

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

- Bruce Lee

"If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

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"Real living is living for others."

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"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

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"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

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"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."

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"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

- Bruce Lee

"Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water."

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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

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"All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self-knowledge."

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"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

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"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you."

- Bruce Lee

"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."

- Bruce Lee

"Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation."

- Bruce Lee

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

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"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

- Bruce Lee

"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence."

- Bruce Lee

"If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today."

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"For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."

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"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing."

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"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."

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"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."

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"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."

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"It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person."

- Bruce Lee

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies."

- Bruce Lee

"Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."

- Bruce Lee

"Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success."

- Bruce Lee

"If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible."

- Bruce Lee

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

- Bruce Lee

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that, and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily, and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."

- Bruce Lee

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

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"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."

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"What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become."

- Bruce Lee

"A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being 'wholly' and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."

- Bruce Lee

"Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum."

- Bruce Lee

"One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way."

- Bruce Lee

"The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit."

- Bruce Lee

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

- Bruce Lee

"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style."

- Bruce Lee

"After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge."

- Bruce Lee

"Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: 'When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.'"

- Bruce Lee

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

- Bruce Lee

"The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues."

- Bruce Lee

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

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"Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship."

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"When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist."

- Bruce Lee

"It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

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"To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever."

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"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself."

- Bruce Lee

"Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."

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"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

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"The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them."

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"The timeless moment. — The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."

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"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

- Bruce Lee

"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."

- Bruce Lee

"It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it."

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"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up."

- Bruce Lee

"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

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"Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory."

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"'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'"

- Bruce Lee

"The best fighter is someone who never has to fight because they control the situation."

- Bruce Lee

"The successful warrior is the average person, with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

"The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills."

- Bruce Lee

"The moment we stop analyzing and let go, we can start really seeing, feeling – as one whole."

- Bruce Lee

"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities"

- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water."

- Bruce Lee

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

- Bruce Lee

"You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you."

- Bruce Lee

"If you truly love life, don't waste time; because time is what life is made of."

- Bruce Lee

"Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine."

- Bruce Lee

"combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit."

- Bruce Lee

"To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."

- Bruce Lee

"To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself."

- Bruce Lee

"Knowledge is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

- Bruce Lee

"Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to proper execution of all physical action."

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"Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave."

- Bruce Lee

"The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom."

- Bruce Lee

"I do not teach you anything. I just help you to know yourself."

- Bruce Lee

"A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing."

- Bruce Lee

"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind."

- Bruce Lee

"When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive."

- Bruce Lee

"You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day."

- Bruce Lee

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"Patience is not passive. It is concentrated strength."

- Bruce Lee

"There will be calmness, tranquility when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed."

- Bruce Lee

"In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature."

- Bruce Lee

"The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened."

- Bruce Lee

"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

"Never take your eyes off your opponent…even when you’re bowing!"

- Bruce Lee

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."

- Bruce Lee

"The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."

- Bruce Lee

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."

- Bruce Lee

"A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come."

- Bruce Lee

"If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you."

- Bruce Lee

"Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better."

- Bruce Lee

"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."

- Bruce Lee

"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."

- Bruce Lee

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"Always be yourself–express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

""Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.""

- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Always be yourself--express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"Always be and have faith in yourself. Don't go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."

- Bruce Lee

"Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal."

- Bruce Lee

""Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.""

- Bruce Lee

"There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there — you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing."

- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life."

- Bruce Lee

"There are no limits."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind, for they are weeds that strangle confidence."

- Bruce Lee

""The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.""

- Bruce Lee

""A successful warrior is an ordinary person with an unwavering focus.""

- Bruce Lee

"A successful warrior is an ordinary person with an unwavering focus."

- Bruce Lee

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect"

- Bruce Lee

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own."

- Bruce Lee

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential."

- Bruce Lee

"If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality."

- Bruce Lee

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made of."

- Bruce Lee

""If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.""

- Bruce Lee

"Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing."

- Bruce Lee

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

- Bruce Lee

"Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish."

- Bruce Lee

"Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy."

- Bruce Lee

"The successful warrior is the average person with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."

- Bruce Lee

"There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

""Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.""

- Bruce Lee

"“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”"

- Bruce Lee

"Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"Don't fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"Choose the positive. You have choice - you are master of your attitude - choose the POSITIVE, the CONSTRUCTIVE. Optimism is a faith that leads to success."

- Bruce Lee

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser like force."

- Bruce Lee

"life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

"Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity."

- Bruce Lee

"Patience is not passive. On the contrary, it is concentrated strength."

- Bruce Lee

"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend."

- Bruce Lee