Bruce Lee Quotes

Bruce Lee Quotes

“The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being” Bruce Lee
“Real living is living for others” Bruce Lee

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

“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.” Bruce Lee

“A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at” Bruce Lee

“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing” Bruce Lee

“Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be” Bruce Lee

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

“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them” Bruce Lee

“To grow, to discover, we need involvement which is something I experience every day, sometimes good, sometimes frustrating” Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Quotes
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it” Bruce Lee

“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

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer” Bruce Lee

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of” Bruce Lee

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at” Bruce Lee

“If you always put a limit 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

“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them” 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

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

“As you think, so shall you become” Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Quotes

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

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect” Bruce Lee

“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory” 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

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering” Bruce Lee

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities” Bruce Lee

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system” Bruce Lee

“You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world” Bruce Lee

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

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend” Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Quotes

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

“Choose the positive. You have a choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success” 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

“The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and, more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited” Bruce Lee

“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself” Bruce Lee

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

“Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do” Bruce Lee

“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier” Bruce Lee

“Real living is living for others” Bruce Lee

“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become” Bruce Lee