“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.”
“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.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
“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.”
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
“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.”
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
“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.”
“Be like water, my friend.”
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
“Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”
“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.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.”
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”
“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.”
“Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
“Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
“People fear what they do not understand.”
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”
“Get maximum effect from minimum effort.”
“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”
“Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.”
“Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.”
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
“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.”
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.”
“To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.”
“Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.”
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”
“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.”
“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.”
“Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
“You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.”
“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.”
“If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”
“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”
“Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.”
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
“Low aim, not failure, is the crime.”
“All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.”
“Live a life worth remembering.”
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
“We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”
“A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.”
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.”
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
“Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”
“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose – to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!”
“Take what’s useful, discard what is not.”
“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”
“Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”
“Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.”
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
“Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.”
“Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.”
“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”
“To change with change is the changeless state.”
“It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.”
“If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”
“Flow in the living moment – We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.”
“It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don’t care how good I am or what I do to him- he’s gonna get my nose.”
“By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.”
“The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.”
“Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”
“Jeet Kune Do: it’s just a name; don’t fuss over it. There’s no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.”
“To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don’t stop and interpret “I am free,” then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone before.”
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