Great Quotes by Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was a martial artist who was a Hong Kong American. He started his a child actor. He was an actor, filmmaker, philosopher as well as martial arts instructor. He was the founder of the technique Jeet Kune Do. He was also well known for his movies like ‘Enter the Dragon’ and ‘Fists of Fury’. Some of the best thoughts by Bruce Lee are listed here.

1. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” - Bruce Lee
2. “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” - Bruce Lee
3. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” - Bruce Lee
4. “Be Happy, But never satisfied.” - Bruce Lee
5. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” - Bruce Lee
6. “Learning is never cumulative; it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.” - Bruce Lee
7. “Do not party for an easy life, party for the strength to endure difficult one.” - Bruce Lee
8. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” - Bruce Lee
9. “Make at least one definite move daily towards your goal.” - Bruce Lee
10. “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
11. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” - Bruce Lee
12. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.” - Bruce Lee
13. “Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing.” - Bruce Lee
14. “Cease negative mental chattering. - If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.” - Bruce Lee
15. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” - Bruce Lee
16. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” - Bruce Lee
17. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.” - Bruce Lee
18. “The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.” - Bruce Lee
19. “Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee
20. “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.” - Bruce Lee
21. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” - Bruce Lee
22. “Don’t fear failure. - Not Failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” - Bruce Lee
23. “Using no way as way, using no limitation as limitation.” - Bruce Lee
24. “There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” - Bruce Lee
25. “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.” - Bruce Lee
26. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is specifically you own.” - Bruce Lee
27. “Real living is living for others.” - Bruce Lee
28. “Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.” - Bruce Lee
29. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” - Bruce Lee
30. “Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.” - Bruce Lee
31. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” - Bruce Lee
32. “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” - Bruce Lee
33. “Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.” - Bruce Lee
34. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” - Bruce Lee
35. “For it is easy to criticise and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” - Bruce Lee
36. “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” - Bruce Lee
37. “Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.” - Bruce Lee
38. “What Is, is more important than What Should Be.” - Bruce Lee
39. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” - Bruce Lee
40. “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity” - Bruce Lee
41. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” - Bruce Lee
42. “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.” - Bruce Lee
43. “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
44. “As you think, so shall you become.” - Bruce Lee
45. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” - Bruce Lee
46. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” - Bruce Lee
47. “‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” - Bruce Lee
48. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” - Bruce Lee
49. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” - Bruce Lee
50. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.” - Bruce Lee
51. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” - Bruce Lee
52. “Obey the principles without being bound by them.” - Bruce Lee
53. “There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.” - Bruce Lee
54. “You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.” - Bruce Lee
55. “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. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.” - Bruce Lee

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