Bruce Lee Quotes
Bruce Lee was a martial artist, actor and filmmaker revered for films such as Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon and the martial arts technique Jeet Kune Do.
50. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
49. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
48. “Be happy, but never satisfied.”
47. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
46. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
45. “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.”
44. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
43. “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.”
42. “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.”
41. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
40. “Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
39. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
38. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
37. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
36. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
35. “If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
34. “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
33. “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
32. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
31. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
30. “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
29. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
28. “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
27. “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.”
26. “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!!”
25. “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”
24. “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.”
23. “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
22. “As you think, so shall you become.”
21. “If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
20. “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.”
19. “Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
18. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
17. “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self 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.”
16. “Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
15. “Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.
14. “Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
13. “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”
12. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
11. “Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
10. “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
9. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
8. “Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
7. “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.”
6. “The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
5. “Boards don't hit back.”
4. “Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
3. “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
2. “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.”
1. “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.”
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