Bruce Lee

"Don't fear failure... In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." ~ Bruce Lee

Be water, my friend. ~ Bruce Lee

Be water, my friend. ~ Bruce Lee

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own."  ~ Bruce Lee

“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Training for strength and flexibility is a must.  You must use it to support your techniques.  Techniques alone are no good if you don’t support them with strength and flexibility.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.” ~ Bruce Lee

“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.” ~ Bruce Lee

“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.  The classical man is just a bundle of routines, ideas and traditions.  If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.” ~ Bruce Lee

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” ~ Bruce Lee

“If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water.  On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.” ~ 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

“Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life!  Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!” ~ Bruce Lee

“When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.” ~ Bruce Lee

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” ~ Bruce Lee

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” ~ Bruce Lee

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” ~ Bruce Lee