Bruce Lee Quotes

Bruce Lee Quotes

1. A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.
2. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
3. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
4. Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
5. Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
6. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
7. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
8. As you think, so shall you become.
9. Be happy, but never satisfied.
10. Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. 
11. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
12. Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
13. Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
14. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
15. 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.
16. If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things; you depend on God for your inner theme.
17. If you always put limits 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.
18. If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
19. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
20. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
21. I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
22. In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.
23. It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
24. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
25. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. 
26. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
27. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
28. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
29. Obey the principles without being bound by them.
30. Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
31. Real living is living for others.
32. Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
33. Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
34. The doubters said, ‘Man cannot fly,’ the doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ and finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.
35. The goal of meditation is not to get rid of thoughts or emotions. The goal is to become more aware of your thoughts and emotions and learn how to move through them without getting stuck. 
36. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
37. The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
38. The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.
39. The possession of anything begins in the mind.
40. The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
41. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
42. Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
43. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
44. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
45. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
46. 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.
47. To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
48. Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
49. Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.