Bruce Lee Quotes

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

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.

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.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

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

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

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 either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

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

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

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.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Efficiency is anything that scores.

It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

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

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

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.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

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

To change with change is the changeless state

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

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.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.