“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
―
Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
―
Bruce Lee
“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you truly love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.”
―
Bruce Lee
