Bruce Lee Quotes

The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

I think footwork is one of the most important things to becoming a great fighter. That's where everything starts.

Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.

I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

I went to karate for about four years, and I learned a lot about focus and listening very good.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.