“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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done”
―
Bruce Lee
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
―
Bruce Lee
“To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.”
―
Bruce Lee
“To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.”
―
Bruce Lee
“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Stay curious.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume. Remembrances last longer than present realities; I have preserved blossoms for many years, but never fruits.”
―
Bruce Lee
