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 key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
• 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 always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
• 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.
• Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
• 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.
• Do not wish for an easy 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.
• Do not pray for an easy life; pray 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.