Jet Li Quotes

Learn the way and find your own way.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.