Quotes from Bruce Lee

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.

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

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.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.