Bruce Lee Quotes (56 Quotes)


    Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

    Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

    Properties give stable yields, unless there is office or retail glut.

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

    Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in the presence of fear.


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

    The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

    If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

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

    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.

    I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

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

    It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

    LET YOURSELF GO WITH THE DISEASE,BE WITH IT, KEEP COMPANY WITH IT-THIS IS THE WAY TO BE RID OF IT.

    To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

    Don't think, feel.... The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will become.

    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.

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

    We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

    If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

    Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

    When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

    The void is that which stands right in the middle of 'this' and 'that'. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite - there is nothing which it excludes or opposses. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things.

    As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

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

    I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

    There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

    Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

    A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

    If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.

    Your inspiration continues to guide us toward our personal liberation.

    A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

    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.

    If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you

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

    As you think, so shall you become.

    Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

    If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you

    You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

    A good martial artist does not become tense but ready. Not thinking yet not dreaming, ready for whatever may come. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and face the consequences of his own doing. To have no technique, there is no opponent, because the word 'I' does not exist. When the opponent expands I contract and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'It' hits all by itself.

    Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life Do not be concerned with your escaping safely lay your life before him

    The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment..

    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.

    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

    The possession of anything begins in the mind.

    Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

    To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

    It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

    The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.

    Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.


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