Bruce Lee Quotes

Under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

Honestly expressing yourself...it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool...or I can make all kind of phony things, you see what I mean, blinded by it or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself...now that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

Action is a highroad to self-esteem.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself — the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.