Bruce Lee Quotes
Bruce Lee Inspirational Quotes
Bruce Lee Jun-fan , known professionally as Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor, and philosopher.
Bruce Lee is my idol, he the man of sacrifice, a man of morals, a man of ethics. His thoughts are really eye-opening. If we follow his philosophy then I assure you that you will definitely do something great in your life.
You can watch his interviews on youtube, and also videos regarding his Martial Arts and as we know that he is the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that are often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA).
Lee is considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. – From Wikipedia
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Bruce Lee Quotes
Bruce Lee Quotes
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it impossible.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus, the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence– drop them.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“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.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“As you think, so shall you become.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“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.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Real living is living for others.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!!” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Be self-aware, rather than a repetitious robot.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The moment is freedom. I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“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.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Learning is never cumulative; it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“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.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“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.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.” by Bruce Lee on Humbaa
