Bruce Lee on Confidence Quotes

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water."

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

"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."

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

"One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition."

"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

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

"As you think, so shall you become."

"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."

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

"Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare."

"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."

"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."

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

"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."

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life."

"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."