Did Bruce Lee Say "Mighty is he who conquers himself"?
Did Bruce Lee say "Mighty is he who conquers himself"? Introduction I came across this quote via the various official Bruce Lee social media sites. I decided to see if Bruce Lee actually said it. The Sources Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu , Bruce Lee and John Little, 1997 I checked the Bruce Lee Library and other sources and found it in volume 2, Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art . It reads: "To see oneself is to be clear of right. Mighty is he who conquers himself." I suspected that it was a copy from somewhere else, so I searched for the origin. The Origin The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham, 1925 It was fairly easy to find the source for the quote. I first located it in a March 2015 blog post by Stephen N. Greenleaf titled The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham . He offers the following excerpt from the book The Painted Veil : "H who strives after tenderness can become even as a little child. Gentleness brings v...