Quotes from Bruce Lee

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

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

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.

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

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

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

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

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

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

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

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

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

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

A man must constantly exceed his level

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

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