Remember, I am no teacher; I can merely be a signpost for a traveler who is lost. It is up to you to decide on the direction.

The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. Emptiness = Totality.

An idea, by itself, it not erroneous but judgment makes it.

Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I’ve done, I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability.

Live content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. Be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

The growth aim is to lose more and more your “mind” and come more to your sense. To be more and more in touch with yourself and the world, instead of only in touch with the fantasies, prejudices, etc.

The function and duty of a human being, a “quality” human being, that is, is the sincere and honest development of potential and self-actualization.

There is no such word as “maturity”. Rather: maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s “the end”. That’s when the coffin is closed.

I am improving and making new discoveries every day. If you don’t you are already crystallized and that’s it.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

The more and more you are aware, the more and more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh, uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.

Do think of the past in terms of those memories of events and accomplishments which were pleasant, rewarding, and satisfying.

Art is communication of feelings.

If you are in the now, you are creative.

The true artist has no public; he works for the sheer joy of it, with an element of playfulness, of casualness.

In all things, it is important to forget your “mind” and become one with the work at hand.

I’m not the type of guy who can sit in the office doing the same routine day in and day out. I have to do something that is creative and interesting to me.

It is the creative ability of a human being that separates him from all other animals.

I don’t want to do anything half way; it as to be perfect.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

Character is to the soul what outward appearances is to the body. A man’s genuineness and refinement should not reveal themselves directly; they should express themselves only indirectly as an effect from within.

Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The power can be created and maintained through daily practice – continuous effort.

I believe that anybody can think himself into his goal if he mixes thought with definiteness of purpose, persistence; and a burning desire for its translation into reality.

The power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind. I will exercise it daily when I need the urge to action for any purpose, and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

I can walk away from millions because it’s not right, but I’ll be damned if I’ll back up an inch from a dime because it has to be so.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn’t it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one’s soul, the master of one’s life?

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth. He values only one thing, the mysterious power in himself which bids him live and helps him to grow. His only living destiny is the silent, ungainsayable law in his own heart, which comfortable habits make it so hard to obey but which to the self-willed man is destiny and godhead.

Whether it is the godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me.

Whether it is the godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me.

I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

I couldn’t go wrong because what I always like about myself is this stickability toward quality and the sincere desire to do it right.

Negativeness very often unknowingly creeps up upon us. It helps occasionally to stop all thoughts (the chattering of worries, anticipations, and so forth, in your head) and then once more refreshingly march bravely on.

Each man must seek out realization himself. No master can give it to him.

Meditation is the freeing of the mind from all motives.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man, etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

You know how I like to think of myself? As a human being.

We do not see “it” in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.