Huge collection of Bruce Lee Quotes for you to read and think about. (Thanks to Alex for this collection)
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
~ Bruce Lee
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
~ Bruce Lee
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither 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.
~ Bruce Lee
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
~ Bruce Lee
The word superstar is an illusion
~ Bruce Lee
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~ Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
~ Bruce Lee
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
~ Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
~ Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
~ Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
~ Bruce Lee
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
~ Bruce Lee
Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
~ Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
~ Bruce Lee
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!!
~ Bruce Lee
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
~ Bruce Lee
Be self-aware, rather than a repetitious robot
~ Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
~ Bruce Lee
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
~ Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
~ Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
~ Bruce Lee
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
~ Bruce Lee
Boards don’t hit back.
~ Bruce Lee
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
~ Bruce Lee
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
~ Bruce Lee
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
~ Bruce Lee
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
~ Bruce Lee
Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
~ Bruce Lee
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.
~ Bruce Lee
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
~ Bruce Lee
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
~ Bruce Lee
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
~ Bruce Lee
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
~ Bruce Lee
Be happy, but never satisfied.
~ Bruce Lee
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. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
~ Bruce Lee
