Quotes from Bruce Lee

Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.

Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.

I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.

Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. — Bruce Lee

When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The

Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone.

Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him. He who knows not and he knows not, he is simple teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow him.

The path of self-realisation is the most difficult. -We acquire a sense of worth either by realising our talents, or by keeping busy, or by identifying ourselves with something apart from us - be it a cause, a leader, a group, possessions, and the like. Of the three, the path of self-realisation is the most difficult. It is taken when other avenues to a sense of worth are more or less blocked.

Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.

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

Los errores son siempre perdonables, si se tiene la valentía de admitirlos.

The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

Do not practice finely skilled movements after you are tired, for you will begin to substitute gross motions for finer ones and generalized efforts for specific ones. Remember, wrong movements tend to supervene and the athlete's progress is set back. Thus, the athlete practices fine skills only while he is fresh. When he becomes fatigued, he shifts to tasks employing gross movements designed principally to develop endurance.

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

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.

The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.