Bruce Lee Quotes

If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.

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.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

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

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

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

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

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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

As you think, so shall you become.

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

There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.

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

Real living is living for others.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

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.

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

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

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

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

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

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

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.

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

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

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.

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

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

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.

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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

The best techniques are the simple ones executed right.

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

The more we understand, the greater and deeper will be our contact with all that is around us.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

There is no weapon more deadly than the will.

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

I don’t know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die – and I go on, non-stop, going forward.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.

It is not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed in what you have learned.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done.

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

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

I’ve come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

To be what I term a ‘quality’ human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

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.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

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

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.