Bruce Lee Quotes

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

Being humbled is a good thing.

It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.