41 quotes
Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."
on Wisdom
"It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men."
on Compassion
"Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it."
on Inspirational
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."
"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."
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
"Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns."
on Truth
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
"I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times."
on Fear
"Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
"If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself."
on Self Awareness
"A conditioned mind is never a free mind."
on Freedom
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
on Life
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one"
on Faith
"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it."
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
