Bruce Lee
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.Collection: Encouragement
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.Collection: Broken Heart
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.Collection: Humility
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.Collection: Giving Up
One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!Collection: Thinking
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.Collection: Inspirational
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.Collection: Trouble
Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.Collection: Skills
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Expectations
You need emotional content.Collection: Emotional
When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.Collection: Inspirational
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.Collection: Mean
To live is to express oneself freelyCollection: Oneself
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.Collection: Adversity
To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.Collection: Moving
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.Collection: Song
To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.Collection: Believe
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.Collection: Art
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Support
A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.Collection: Chance
It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.Collection: Broken
The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.Collection: Mean
Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.Collection: Distance
I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.Collection: Wisdom
Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.Collection: Self
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.Collection: Inspirational
Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.Collection: Evaluation
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.Collection: Art
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.Collection: Discovery
Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.Collection: Flexible
You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.Collection: This Life
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.Collection: Moving
Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.Collection: Flow
I don't believe in getting something for nothing.Collection: Believe
We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we createCollection: Standing Alone
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.Collection: Self
Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.Collection: Men
The More we value things, the less we value ourselvesCollection: Inspirational
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by othersCollection: Independent
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.Collection: Self
People fear what they do not understand.Collection: People
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.Collection: Blank Mind
Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.Collection: Hard Work
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.Collection: Motivational
What Is, is more important than What Should Be.Collection: Powerful
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.Collection: Love
When one has no form, one can be all forms.Collection: Mma