Diarcy Walker > Diarcy's Quotes

“If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
― Bruce Lee

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
― Bruce Lee

“As you think, so shall you become.”
― Bruce Lee

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
― Bruce Lee

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
― Bruce Lee

“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”
― Bruce Lee

“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
― Bruce Lee

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
― Bruce Lee

“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
― Bruce Lee

“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
― Bruce Lee

“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
― Bruce Lee

“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
― Bruce Lee

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
― Bruce Lee

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
― Bruce Lee

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
― Bruce Lee

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”
― Bruce Lee

“‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
― Bruce Lee

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
― Bruce Lee

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
― Bruce Lee

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
― Bruce Lee

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
― Bruce Lee

“Boards don't hit back.”
― Bruce Lee

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
― Bruce Lee

“Real living is living for others.”
― Bruce Lee

“It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
― Bruce Lee