Bruce Lee

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

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
– 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 patter of systems.
– Bruce Lee

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

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

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it
becomes the cup. Put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or creep or
drip or crash. Be water, my friend.
– Bruce Lee

Running water never grows stale. So you just have to “keep on flowing.”
– 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

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

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one
whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to
bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will
succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from
carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.
– Bruce Lee

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

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
– Bruce Lee

Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now!
So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
– Bruce Lee

Be happy, but never satisfied.
– Bruce Lee

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
– Bruce Lee

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

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.
– Bruce Lee

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

Balance your thoughts with action.
– Bruce Lee

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
– Bruce Lee

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

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

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred – the
human law in himself, his own individual will.
– Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
– Bruce Lee

When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train
every part of your body!
– 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

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

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing.
Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end.
That’s when the coffin is closed.
– Bruce Lee

All types of knowledge ultimately mean self-knowledge.
– 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

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your
preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it
is empty.
– Bruce Lee

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
– 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

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

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

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

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has
no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound
by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
– Bruce Lee

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
– Bruce Lee

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– 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

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
– Bruce Lee

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by
bending with the wind.
– Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
– Bruce Lee

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.
Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
– 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 or her student.
– Bruce Lee

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
– Bruce Lee

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire – soon it will go out. Before
we married, we never had the chance to go out to nightclubs. We only spent our nights
watching TV and chatting. Many young couples live a very exciting life when they are in love.
So, when they marry, and their lives are reduced to calmness and dullness, they will feel
impatient and will drink the bitter cup of a sad marriage.
– Bruce Lee

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
– Bruce Lee

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
– Bruce Lee

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer
conditions.
– Bruce Lee

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
– Bruce Lee

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
– Bruce Lee