Bruce Lee on Growth Quotes

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

"Since life is an ever-evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself."

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

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

"Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare."

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own."

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

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own."

"As you think, so shall you become."

"If you always put limit on everything you do... it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits."

"The change is from within; we can't change the world unless we change ourselves."

"Concepts vs. self-actualization. — Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves. p. 44"

"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."

"Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own."

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

"Real living is living for others."

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

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

"Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless. Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."

"To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do."

"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."

"Self-knowledge is the basis for self-sufficiency."

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

"The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness with himself."

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

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."

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

"Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book."

"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

"To control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature."

"Sorrow is the best educator for one who has a heart that can feel and a mind that can think."