Bruce Lee Quotes
Bruce Lee Quotes
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
“Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.”
As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
Real living is living for others.
“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and 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. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
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.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, “I” do not hit, “it” hits all by itself.
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.
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.
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Bruce Lee Quotes on Water & Be Like Water
If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
Running water never grows stale.
Bruce Lee Quotes on Fear
Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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.
Motivational Quotes by Bruce Lee
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
Bruce Lee Quotes on Practice
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do.
Bruce Lee Quotes about Working out
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
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 Quotes on 1000 Kicks
“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.”
Great Quotes on Success by Bruce Lee
Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee Quotes about Time
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
Bruce Lee Quotes about Martial Art
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
Bruce Lee Quotes on Knowledge
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.
Bruce Lee Quotes Laser Like Focus
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Amazing Bruce Lee Quotes about Life
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Real living is living for others.
Short Dreams Quotes by Bruce Lee
A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one’s own being – these are synonymous.
Famous Quotes on Simplicity by Bruce Lee
“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.”
“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 spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
Bruce Lee Quotes about Goals
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee Quotes on Time Management
“The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.”
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Great Quotes on Truth by Bruce Lee
“It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it. “
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
Bruce Lee Quotes on Power / Speed / Flexibility
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
“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.”
Bruce Lee Quotes on Self Awareness
“Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.”
“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”
Bruce Lee Quotes about Learning
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
Bruce Lee Quotes about Teachers
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
Bruce Lee Personal Development Quotes
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
“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 Quotes on Training
Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.
Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don’t support them with strength and flexibility.
Best Love Quotes by Bruce Lee
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee Quotes about Running
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Running water never grows stale.
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