“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
— Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
“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.”
“As you think, so shall you become.”
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”
“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“If you always put limits 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.”
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”
“Be like water, my friend.”
“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
“Real living is living for others.”
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”
“Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.”
“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.”
“Boards don’t hit back.”
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”
“Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
“Either push your limits or die.”
“Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
“Get maximum effect from minimum effort.”
“People fear what they do not understand.”
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”
“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
“Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.”
“Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.”
“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.”
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