Bruce Lee Quotes

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

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Be like water, my friend.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

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

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

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

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.

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

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

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

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

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.

To change with change is the changeless state

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

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.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

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.

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

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

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Never take your eyes off your opponent, even when you bow.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

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.