Quotes from Bruce Lee

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

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.

Real living is living for others.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

Water Quote:You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash, drip, flow...be water my friend

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

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

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.