“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.” ― Bruce Lee “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ” ― Bruce Lee

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” ― Bruce Lee “If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” ― Bruce Lee “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.” ― Bruce Lee

“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot” ― Bruce Lee “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 eitherspend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.” ― Bruce Lee “Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.”― Bruce Lee “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in acup, 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 likewater my friend.”

“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.” ― Bruce Lee , Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.” ― Bruce Lee , Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.” ― Bruce Lee “Boards don't hit back.” ― Bruce Lee “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” ― Bruce Lee , Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxedstate will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.” ― Bruce Lee “Defeat is not defeat unless acceptedas a reality-in your own mind.” ― Bruce Lee “If you love life, don't waste time, fortime is what life is made up of.” ― Bruce Lee

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.” ― Bruce Lee “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.” ― Bruce Lee

“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.” ― Bruce Lee “Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.” ― Bruce Lee , Tao of Jeet Kune Do “If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like anecho. ” ― Bruce Lee “Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trappedyourself there.” ― Bruce Lee , Tao of Jeet Kune Do “As you think, so shall you become.” ― Bruce Lee

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.” ― Bruce Lee “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” ― Bruce Lee “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.” ― Bruce Lee

“You cannot force the Now. — But 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. Sourced, Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 13” ― Bruce Lee , Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living “The word "superstar" is an ilusion” ― Bruce Lee “Moving, be like water. Still, be like amirror. Respond like an echo.” ― Bruce Lee

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.” ― Bruce Lee “But neither can you 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.” ― Bruce Lee “Knowledge will give you power, butcharacter respect.” ― Bruce Lee

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.” ― Bruce Lee “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ― Bruce Lee “As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.” ― Bruce Lee

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.” ― Bruce Lee “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ― Bruce Lee “As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.” ― Bruce Lee “Real living is living for others.” ― Bruce Lee

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” ― Bruce Lee “The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertivenessand competition” ― Bruce Lee , Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.” ― Bruce Lee “The possession of anything begins in the mind.” ― Bruce Lee “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” ― Bruce Lee “‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ― Bruce Lee

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” ― Bruce Lee “I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee “It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” ― Bruce Lee

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.” ― Bruce Lee “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” ― Bruce Lee

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.” ― Bruce Lee , Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truthis outside of all fixed patterns.” ― Bruce Lee “The More we value things, the less we value ourselves” ― Bruce Lee “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.” ― Bruce Lee “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.” ― Bruce Lee

The following are some of my favorite quotes from Bruce Lee: *. “The “moment” has no yesterday ortomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.” *. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough: we must do.” *. “Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.” *. “The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being” *. ” Real living is living for others.” *. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” *. “Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems arebrought into existence -drop them.” *. “A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at.” *. “Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, heestablishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.” *. “Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be.” *. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” *. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” *. “To grow, to discover, we need involvement which is something I experience everyday, sometimes good, sometimes frustrating.”

“If you risk nothing you gain nothing” ― Bear Grylls “The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… andthe more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to meand I really clung to it…” ― Bear Grylls