Bruce Lee Quotes

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

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

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”

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

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

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

“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”

“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.”

“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”

“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”

“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.”

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

“‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.”

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”

“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”

“Boards don't hit back.”

“Real living is living for others.”

“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.”

“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

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

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

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

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

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

“You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on?”

“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

“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.”

“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”

“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“Possession of anything begins in the mind.”

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”

“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”

“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.”

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

“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”

“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”

“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”

“water is fearless, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot, water can flow drip, creap, or crash!”

“The word "superstar" is an ilusion”

“Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.”

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

“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.”