Bruce Lee

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times

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

As you think, so shall you become.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

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

Keep yourself restless and unsatisfied.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks, and observes.

If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.