“Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate effort and the desire to improve. Be generous with honest praise.”Bruce Lee
“The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.”Bruce Lee
“If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, cannot be preconceived.”Bruce Lee
“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”Bruce Lee
“When you point at the moon, don't stare at your finger. Feel, don't overthink, and the lesson will sink in.”Bruce Lee
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind, for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”Bruce Lee
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”Bruce Lee
“Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.”Bruce Lee
“Persistence, persistence, and persistence. Power is created and maintained through daily practice — continuous effort.”Bruce Lee
“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”Bruce Lee
“Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.”Bruce Lee
“Choose the positive. You have choice; you are the master of your attitude. Choose the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”Bruce Lee
