47 Quotes by Bruce Lee
- 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.
- Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Obey the principles without being bound by them.
- Real living is living for others.
- Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
- Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
- Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
- The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- The possession of anything begins in the mind.
- To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
- You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
- It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
- 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.
- 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.
- A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
- A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
- 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.
- 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 spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
- Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
- Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- As you think, so shall you become.
- The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless- like water.
- Do not ask for an easy life; ask for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it
- Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you break down the door.
- Be water, my friend, adaptable and powerful, flowing with ease in any direction.
- The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
- Be water, my friend, adapting to any environment one may find oneself in.
- What you think, you become
- Do not wish for an easy life; wish for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- The only limit to power is the extent of one's discipline.
- Greatness is not found in possessions, but in relationships, passions, and integrity.
- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Do not wish for an easy life, wish for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, and do not go out to look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Do not wish for an easier life, wish for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- A man who asks is a fool for five minutes, a man who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Be like water: adaptable, relentless, and capable of crashing through anything in your path—though a nice teacup moment now and then wouldn't hurt.
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