Bruce Lee Quotes
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.
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.
Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.
Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
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.
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
Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.
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.
Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing
The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
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.
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
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.
To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.
Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.