Bruce Lee Quotes

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

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

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

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

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

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

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

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

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

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

I think of myself as a human being.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

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

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.