Bruce Lee Quotes

Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

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

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

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

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

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

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

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.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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

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

As you think, you shall become

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

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.

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

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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

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

Real living is living for others.

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

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

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

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

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.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

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

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite—there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.

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

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

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.