Bruce Lee Quotes


"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Wind)

"Obey the principles without being bound by them."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Being, Principles)

"Real living is living for others."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Living)

"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Idea, Fool, Glory)

"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Thought, Right, Wrong)

"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
- Bruce Lee
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Life, First, Immortality, Key, Living, Worth)

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Effort, Will)

"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Mind, Possession)

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Action, Study)

"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: World)

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
- Bruce Lee
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Courage, Mistakes)

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Circumstances, Hell)

"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
(Related: Fear, Man)

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Friendship, Love, Beginning, Deep, Fire, Light, Pretty)

"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Fool, Quick, Temper, Will)

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Fool, Man, Question)

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Truth, Adaptability)

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Faith, Personality)

"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
(Related: Quality, Development, Growth, Being, Duty, Potential)

"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
(Related: Expectations, World)

"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."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Work, Life, Limits, Will)

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Life, Love, Time, Waste)

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Time, Thinking)

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Living, Man, Style)

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Character, Respect, Will)

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Goal)

"As you think, so shall you become."
- Bruce Lee