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

Lee: "All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

Lee: "To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."

Lee: "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

Lee: "The possession of anything begins in the mind."

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."

Lee: "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

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

Lee: "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."

Lee: "Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

Lee: "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

Lee: "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."

Lee: "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."

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

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

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