Bruce Lee Quotes
The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!
The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
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.
'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.
Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.
Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.
I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!
Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.
The doubters said, "Man can not fly, " The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try, " And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.