Quotes from Bruce Lee

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

You need emotional content.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

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

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.