Bruce lee quotes

Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

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

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

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.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

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.

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.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

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

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

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

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

Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

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.

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.

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

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

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.

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.

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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.

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

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

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

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

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.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

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

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.

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

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

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

As you think, you shall become

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

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

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

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

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.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

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

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.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

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.

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

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

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

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

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

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

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

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

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

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.

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

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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.

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

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

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

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

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

Your state of mind is everything.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

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

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

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

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

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Live a life worth remembering.

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

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

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

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

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

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.