Quotes from Bruce Lee

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization.

Boards don't hit back, O'Hara

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.

Empty your mind. Be formless shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can either flow, or it can crash! Be like water, my friend.

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.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

Having no limitation as limitation

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Using no way as way

As you think, so shall you become.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.