Bruce Lee Quotes

Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at "what is" from a position of thinking "what should be."

The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

"The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below."

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

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

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.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. — Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

As the water manifests the brightness of the moon, the moon manifests the clarity of the water.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Seek to understand the root. — It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will ultimately become.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.