
1. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
2. “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
3. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
4. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
5. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
6. “As you think, so shall you become.”
7. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.”
8. “To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”
9. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
10. “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
11. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
12. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
13. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
14. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
15. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
16. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
17. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
18. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily kracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
20. “Real living is living for others.”
21. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
22. “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
23. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
24. “The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead – big possibilities.”
25. “Like the song says, “We’ve just begun.””
26. “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
27. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
28. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
29. “Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. LEARN, MASTER AND ACHIEVE!!! ”
30. “Question: What are your thoughts when facing an opponent?
Bruce: There is no opponent.
Question: Why is that?
Bruce: Because the word ”l” does not exist.
A good fight should be like a small play…but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand.
And when there is an opportunity… l do not hit…it hits all by itself (shows his fist).
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.”
31. “The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.”
32. “Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him”
33. “Let me give you a bit of warning: just because you get very good at your training it should not go to your head that you are an expert. Remember, actual sparring is the ultimate, and the training is, only a means toward this. Besides running, one should also do exercises for the stomach – sit-ups, leg raises, etc. Too often one of those big-belly masters will tell you that his internal power has sunk to his stomach; he’s not kidding, it is sunk and gone! To put it bluntly, he is nothing but fat and ugly.”
34. “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”
35. “using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation.”
36. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance”
37. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
38. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
39. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not you go out and look for a successfull personality an duplicate it.”
40. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
41. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done”
42. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system”
43. “The possession of anything begins in the mind”
44. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of”
45. “I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to exlplore yourself”
