Bruce Lee

“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”

“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”

“if you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering”

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

“...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”

“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”

“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”

“I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times”

“It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

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

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

“Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.”

“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. 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. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”

“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”

“But neither can you 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.”

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

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

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”

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

“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”

“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.”

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

“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”

“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.”

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”

“Real living is living for others.”

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

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

“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 successfull personality and duplicate it.”

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

“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”

“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”

“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”

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

“Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.”

“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“If you always put limits 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.”

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

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”