If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone ready to ride you.
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Other Bruce Lee quotes:
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
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.
To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary... Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
Knowledge will give you power, but, character, respect.
Think not that your assailant is going to harm you, but take joy in the havoc that you're going to lay on him after he's been so obliging as to put himself in the position where you can reach him.
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.
To tolerate is to insult.
If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.
Only in times of adversity, privation, or mishap does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination of self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood.
Persistence, persistence, persistence. Just don't give up. The power can be created and maintained through daily practice, through continuous effort.
