“When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have. Use your whole body — your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to — and strike every vulnerable spot: the groin, the eyes, and anything else needed to win.”Bruce Lee
“Action is the high road to self-confidence and self-esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”Bruce Lee
“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.”Bruce Lee
“Man is constantly growing, and when he becomes bound by a fixed pattern of ideas or a single way of doing things, that is when he stops growing.”Bruce Lee
“The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.”Bruce Lee
“Because one does not want to be disturbed or made uncertain, they establish a pattern of conduct, a pattern of thought, a pattern of relationships to others. Then they become a slave to the pattern and take the pattern to be the real thing.”Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself 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
“It is useless to try to stir the dirt out of muddy water. It will only become murkier. Leave it alone, and if it should be cleared, it will become clear by itself.”Bruce Lee
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”Bruce Lee
“I am happy because I am growing daily, and honestly I do not know where the limit lies. Every day can bring a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of past misfortunes; they have added to my bank of fortitude.”Bruce Lee
“The second-hand artist, blindly following his sensei or sifu, accepts that pattern. As a result, his actions — and, more importantly, his thinking — become mechanical. His responses become automatic, locked into set patterns, which makes him narrow and limited.”Bruce Lee
“Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery — a process without end.”Bruce Lee
“The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”Bruce Lee
