Bruce Lee

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

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

Your state of mind is everything.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

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

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

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.

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

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

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.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.