Quotes from Bruce Lee

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

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

Action is a high road to self-confidence and self-esteem.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The more and more you are aware, the more and more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh, uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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

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

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.

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.