Bruce Lee Quotes
Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people — because if you do, well that's it — I don't care how good you are.

Soon my fists began to swell from hitting his hard head. Right then I realized Wing Chun was not too practical and began to alter my way of fighting

You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Boards don't hit back.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing towards the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

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


A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.


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


All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.


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


As you think, so shall you become.


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.


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.


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


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.




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


If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.


It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.


Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.


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

Obey the principles without being bound by them.


Real living is living for others.


Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. 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.

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