- I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
- 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.
- Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
- Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
- Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- Be happy, but never satisfied.
- I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
- Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
- A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
- Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
- If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
- 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.
- Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
- Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
- Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
- Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
