"It is not a shame to be knocked……" — Bruce Lee
"It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person."
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396 Quotes by Bruce Lee
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The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
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Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you…
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.…
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Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.…
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Learn it all, then forget it all.
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There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill…
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Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd…
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I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy…
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