Bruce Lee Quotes

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life."

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"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."

"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."

"As you think, so shall you become."

"If you always put 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."

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

"Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength."

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

"The ultimate goal of all knowledge is self-knowledge."

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

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

"Be self-aware, rather than a repetitious robot."

"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."

"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

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

"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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."

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."

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

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own."

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

"Real living is living for others."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

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

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."