Bruce Lee Motivation Quotations

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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.

As you think, so shall you become.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

If you always put limit 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.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Real living is living for others.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.