“The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.”
―
Bruce Lee
“To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
―
Bruce Lee
Action is a highroad to self-esteem.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.”
―
Bruce Lee
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The attitude, “You can win if you want to badly enough,” means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too “tough” to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner’s ideals and dreams.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Relationship is a process of self-revelation.”
―
Bruce Lee
