Best Bruce Lee Quotes
1- “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee
2- “Obey the principles without being bound by them.” ~ Bruce Lee
3- “Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.” ~ Bruce Lee
4- “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” ~ Bruce Lee
5- “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” ~ Bruce Lee
6- “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” ~ Bruce Lee
7- “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
8- “When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.” ~ Bruce Lee
9- “Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.” ~ Bruce Lee
10- “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.” ~ Bruce Lee
11- “If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.” ~ Bruce Lee
12- “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
13- “Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.” ~ Bruce Lee
14- “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.” ~ Bruce Lee
15- “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee
16- “No matter what, you must let your inner
light guide you out of the darkness.” ~ Bruce Lee
17- “Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ~ Bruce Lee
18- “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” ~ Bruce Lee
19- “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” ~ Bruce Lee
20- “Be happy, but never satisfied.” ~ Bruce Lee
21- “The poorer we are
inwardly,
the more we try to
enrich ourselves
outwardly.” ~ Bruce Lee
22- “A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.” ~ Bruce Lee
23- “What Is, is more important than What Should Be.” ~ Bruce Lee
24- “Your state of mind is everything.” ~ Bruce Lee
25- “To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.” ~ Bruce Lee
26- “Each moment that passes changes you…You can’t even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.” ~ Bruce Lee
27- “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” ~ Bruce Lee
28- “One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others” ~ Bruce Lee
29- “Knowing is not enough, You must apply” ~ Bruce Lee
30- “Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.” ~ Bruce Lee
31- “Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.” ~ Bruce Lee
32- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee
33- “It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.” ~ Bruce Lee
34- “To be what I term a ‘quality’ human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.” ~ Bruce Lee
35- “Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.” ~ Bruce Lee
36- “Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.” ~ Bruce Lee
37-“Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.” ~ Bruce Lee
38- “Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can’t be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.” ~ Bruce Lee
39- “Either push your limits or die.” ~ Bruce Lee
40- “The possession of anything begins in the mind.” ~ Bruce Lee
41- “If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?” ~ Bruce Lee
42- “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.” ~ Bruce Lee
43- “To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the ‘old’, you derive security; from the ‘new’, you gain the flow.” ~ Bruce Lee
44- “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” ~ Bruce Lee
45- “The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.” ~ Bruce Lee
46- “Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.” ~ Bruce Lee
47- “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” ~ Bruce Lee
48- “Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.” ~ Bruce Lee
49- “You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.” ~ Bruce Lee
50- “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” ~ Bruce Lee
