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Bruce Lee's confidence was magnetic, but it wasn't arrogance. It was grounded in deep self-knowledge. He believed that 'to know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. ' Confidence, for Lee, came from the honest expression of oneself. He taught that we should not look for a successful personality to duplicate, but look inward to find our own unique strength. True confidence is the absence of the need to prove oneself.
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own."
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
"Your mental attitude determines what you make of it, a stepping stone or a stumbling block."
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
"Action is a high road to self-confidence and self-esteem."
"The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness with himself."
"One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition."
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
"Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare."
"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
"Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish."
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."
"For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."
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