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

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting, If I tell you I'm no good, You know I'm lying.

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.

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.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything; put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

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

Real living is living for others.

Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.