Quotes by Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't look at the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory.

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

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.

Establish nothing in regard to oneself. Pass quickly like the non-existent and be quiet as Purity. Those who gain lose.

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

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

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

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 it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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.

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

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.