Thoughts of BRUCE LEE

 

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

As you think, so shall you become.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Real living is living for others.

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

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

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

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. 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.

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

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