It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain.
When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.
Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.
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'.
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
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
In life there are no Limits, only plateaus.
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.
In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.