If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'.

Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.

There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

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

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practising, our work will become natural, skill full, swift, and steady.

Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.

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

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

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

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

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