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1. In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
- Bruce Lee
2. Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
- Bruce Lee
3. Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don’t support them with strength and flexibility.
- Bruce Lee
4. If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.
- Bruce Lee
5. Efficiency is anything that scores.
- Bruce Lee
6. I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.
- Bruce Lee
7. 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
8. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Bruce Lee
9. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
- Bruce Lee
10. Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.
- Bruce Lee
11. If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
- Bruce Lee
12. Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.
- Bruce Lee
13. When finger point at moon, don’t look at finger or you’ll miss the moon.
- Bruce Lee
14. An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
- Bruce Lee
15. A man must constantly exceed his level.
- Bruce Lee
16. Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down.
- Bruce Lee
17. We do not become. We simply are.
- Bruce Lee
18. You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
- Bruce Lee
19. Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
- Bruce Lee
20. 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
21. To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
- Bruce Lee
22. I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
- Bruce Lee
23. Boards don’t hit back.
- Bruce Lee
24. Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
- Bruce Lee
25. If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
- Bruce Lee
26. ‘What is’ is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be.’
- Bruce Lee
27. A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.
- Bruce Lee
28. The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
- Bruce Lee
29. It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.
- Bruce Lee
30. Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against.
- Bruce Lee
31. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
- Bruce Lee
32. Put every great teacher in a room, and they’d agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.
- Bruce Lee
33. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
- Bruce Lee
34. Belts are only good for holding up your pants.
- Bruce Lee
35. True refinement seeks simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
36. If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
- Bruce Lee
37. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
- Bruce Lee
38. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
- Bruce Lee
39. Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
- Bruce Lee
40. Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.
- Bruce Lee
41. When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
42. The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” and finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.
- Bruce Lee
43. Turn your sparring into play – but always play seriously.
- Bruce Lee
44. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.
- Bruce Lee
45. Be a practical dreamer backed by action.
- Bruce Lee
46. The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and, more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.
- Bruce Lee
47. A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
- Bruce Lee
48. What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
- Bruce Lee
49. When you freely express, you are the total style.
- Bruce Lee
50. Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
- Bruce Lee
51. I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
- Bruce Lee
52. Truth cannot be structured or confined.
- Bruce Lee
53. 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!
- Bruce Lee
54. Your state of mind is everything.
- Bruce Lee
55. Flow in the living moment – We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.
- Bruce Lee
56. It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
- Bruce Lee
57. Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
- Bruce Lee
58. I don’t believe in getting something for nothing.
- Bruce Lee
59. Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
- Bruce Lee
60. If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
- Bruce Lee
61. Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
- Bruce Lee
62. The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and, more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.
- Bruce Lee
63. 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
64. Get maximum effect from minimum effort.
- Bruce Lee
65. To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.
- Bruce Lee
66. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
- Bruce Lee
67. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
68. Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
- Bruce Lee
69. Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
- Bruce Lee
70. It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Bruce Lee
71. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
- Bruce Lee
72. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
- Bruce Lee
73. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.
- Bruce Lee
74. To live is to express oneself freely.
- Bruce Lee
75. Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion.
- Bruce Lee
76. Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.
- Bruce Lee
77. In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
- Bruce Lee
78. The success of an assailant’s attack depends on surprise, and if you’re sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.
- Bruce Lee
79. The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee
80. With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
- Bruce Lee
81. The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.
- Bruce Lee
82. The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.
- Bruce Lee
83. If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don’t fuss over it.
- Bruce Lee
84. Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
- Bruce Lee
85. To tolerate is to insult.
- Bruce Lee
86. Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.
- Bruce Lee
87. All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.
- Bruce Lee
88. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- Bruce Lee
89. Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
- Bruce Lee
90. The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
- Bruce Lee
91. Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.
- Bruce Lee
92. The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.
- Bruce Lee
93. The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.
- Bruce Lee
94. An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
- Bruce Lee
95. Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.
- Bruce Lee
96. The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.
- Bruce Lee
97. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
- Bruce Lee
98. We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
- Bruce Lee
99. Either push your limits or die.
- Bruce Lee
100. Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.
- Bruce Lee
101. Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.
- Bruce Lee
102. Bruce Lee is arguably the most influential martial artist of all time – and his work as an actor and filmmaker marked a turning point in the way Asians were depicted in film in the U.S.
- Bruce Lee
103. In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
- Bruce Lee
104. He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.
- Bruce Lee
105. Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
- Bruce Lee
106. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
107. Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.
- Bruce Lee
108. Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
- Bruce Lee
109. To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
- Bruce Lee
110. Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- Bruce Lee
111. I don’t believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.
- Bruce Lee
112. Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.
- Bruce Lee
113. The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body’s action and master your will more easily.
- Bruce Lee
114. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
- Bruce Lee
115. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. – To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
- Bruce Lee
116. To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.
- Bruce Lee
117. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
- Bruce Lee
118. But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.
- Bruce Lee
119. Willing is not enough, one must apply.
- Bruce Lee
120. A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
- Bruce Lee
121. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.
- Bruce Lee
122. A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.
- Bruce Lee
123. 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
124. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
- Bruce Lee
125. Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
- Bruce Lee
126. Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
- Bruce Lee
127. It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.
- Bruce Lee
128. Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
- Bruce Lee
129. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one’s original sense of freedom.
- Bruce Lee
130. I’ve come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
- Bruce Lee
131. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
- Bruce Lee
132. Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.
- Bruce Lee
133. If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.
- Bruce Lee
134. I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.
- Bruce Lee
135. To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
- Bruce Lee
136. Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.
- Bruce Lee
137. Be happy, but never satisfied.
- Bruce Lee
138. You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.
- Bruce Lee
139. The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.
- Bruce Lee
140. If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
- Bruce Lee
141. The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form.
- Bruce Lee
142. The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
- Bruce Lee
143. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing.
- Bruce Lee
144. The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion.
- Bruce Lee
145. What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds ‘body feel’ and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
- Bruce Lee
146. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
- Bruce Lee
147. Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
- Bruce Lee
148. I’m not a master. I’m a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I’m still learning. So I’m a student-master. I don’t believe in the word ‘master.’ I consider the master as such when they close the casket.
- Bruce Lee
149. Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
- Bruce Lee
150. Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.
- Bruce Lee
151. What can you take from me which is not already yours?
- Bruce Lee
152. Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
- Bruce Lee
153. Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
- Bruce Lee
154. Concepts vs. self-actualization. – Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.
- Bruce Lee
155. Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
- Bruce Lee
156. If you always put limits 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
157. 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
158. After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
- Bruce Lee
159. One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
- Bruce Lee
160. Probably the most badass guy who ever lived on this planet!
- Bruce Lee
161. If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. 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.
- Bruce Lee
162. Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
- Bruce Lee
163. Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.
- Bruce Lee
164. Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
- Bruce Lee
165. I think of myself as a human being.
- Bruce Lee
166. Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
- Bruce Lee
167. Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
- Bruce Lee
168. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.
- Bruce Lee
169. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.
- Bruce Lee
170. The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
- Bruce Lee
171. I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
- Bruce Lee
172. The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.
- Bruce Lee
173. Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
- Bruce Lee
174. Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
- Bruce Lee
175. I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled.
- Bruce Lee
176. Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
- Bruce Lee
177. Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
- Bruce Lee
178. Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be.
- Bruce Lee
179. The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
- Bruce Lee
180. All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived.
- Bruce Lee
181. To take responsibility for one’s own actions, good and bad, is something else.
- Bruce Lee
182. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
- Bruce Lee
183. Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.
- Bruce Lee
184. By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.
- Bruce Lee
185. Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.
- Bruce Lee
186. Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
- Bruce Lee
187. Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.
- Bruce Lee
188. Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.
- Bruce Lee
189. Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
- Bruce Lee
190. Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.
- Bruce Lee
191. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- Bruce Lee
192. The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
- Bruce Lee
193. Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
- Bruce Lee
194. Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.
- Bruce Lee
195. The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.
- Bruce Lee
196. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
- Bruce Lee
197. Take what’s useful, discard what is not.
- Bruce Lee
198. Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.
- Bruce Lee
199. Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
- Bruce Lee
200. There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
- Bruce Lee
201. If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?
- Bruce Lee
202. 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
203. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.
- Bruce Lee
204. Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.
- Bruce Lee
205. The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
- Bruce Lee
206. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- Bruce Lee
207. Before me now there is only one real fact – Death. The truth I have been seeking – this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So – we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.
- Bruce Lee
208. Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
- Bruce Lee
209. More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself – and that’s about it.
- Bruce Lee
210. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.
- Bruce Lee
211. When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.
- Bruce Lee
212. If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.
- Bruce Lee
213. From form to formless and from finite to infinite.
- Bruce Lee
214. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
- Bruce Lee
215. True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
- Bruce Lee
216. 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
217. Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
- Bruce Lee
218. To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.
- Bruce Lee
219. A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
- Bruce Lee
220. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
- Bruce Lee
221. Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
- Bruce Lee
222. Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
- Bruce Lee
223. Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.
- Bruce Lee
224. 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
225. There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don’t believe it.
- Bruce Lee
226. A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
- Bruce Lee
227. Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.
- Bruce Lee
228. If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.
- Bruce Lee
229. The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
- Bruce Lee
230. Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.
- Bruce Lee
231. Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
- Bruce Lee
232. Bruce Lee is one of my idols as an entrepreneur. He was a martial artist, film director, producer, screenwriter, philosopher and actor.
- Bruce Lee
233. 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
234. When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.
- Bruce Lee
235. Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.
- Bruce Lee
236. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
237. Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.
- Bruce Lee
238. Obey the principles without being bound by them.
- Bruce Lee
239. Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
- Bruce Lee
240. In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?
- Bruce Lee
241. To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
- Bruce Lee
242. Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!
- Bruce Lee
243. Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.
- Bruce Lee
244. Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
- Bruce Lee
245. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
- Bruce Lee
246. All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one’s body – with a lot of deception in between.
- Bruce Lee
247. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
- Bruce Lee
248. You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.
- Bruce Lee
249. It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.
- Bruce Lee
250. 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
251. When one has no form, one can be all forms.
- Bruce Lee
252. You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.
- Bruce Lee
253. Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.
- Bruce Lee
254. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose – to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
- Bruce Lee
255. Jeet Kune Do: it’s just a name; don’t fuss over it. There’s no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
- Bruce Lee
256. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
- Bruce Lee
257. We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
- Bruce Lee
258. Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.
- Bruce Lee
259. 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
260. Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.
- Bruce Lee
261. Learn it all, then forget it all.
- Bruce Lee
262. You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
- Bruce Lee
263. The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
- Bruce Lee
264. Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.
- Bruce Lee
265. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee
266. Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
- Bruce Lee
267. If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.
- Bruce Lee
268. Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
- Bruce Lee
269. I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
- Bruce Lee
270. The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
- Bruce Lee
271. Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
- Bruce Lee
272. Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
- Bruce Lee
273. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.
- Bruce Lee
274. I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.
- Bruce Lee
275. Seek freedom from the conformity of styles.
- Bruce Lee
276. 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
277. Real living is living for others.
- Bruce Lee
278. Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
- Bruce Lee
279. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
- Bruce Lee
280. I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
- Bruce Lee
281. Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one’s own being – these are synonymous.
- Bruce Lee
282. 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
283. People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.
- Bruce Lee
284. Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.
- Bruce Lee
285. To change with change is the changeless state.
- Bruce Lee
286. Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
- Bruce Lee
287. The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.
- Bruce Lee
288. Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
- Bruce Lee
289. There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.
- Bruce Lee
290. One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
291. Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
- Bruce Lee
292. To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
- Bruce Lee
293. There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.
- Bruce Lee
294. Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.
- Bruce Lee
295. The possession of anything begins in the mind.
- Bruce Lee
296. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
- Bruce Lee
297. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.
- Bruce Lee
298. To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
- Bruce Lee
299. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.
- Bruce Lee
300. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
- Bruce Lee
301. When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.
- Bruce Lee
302. When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
- Bruce Lee
303. Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
- Bruce Lee
304. The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
- Bruce Lee
305. As long as we separate this oneness into two we won’t achieve realization.
- Bruce Lee
306. The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.
- Bruce Lee
307. The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
- Bruce Lee
308. Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.
- Bruce Lee
309. Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
- Bruce Lee
310. The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
- Bruce Lee
311. Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- Bruce Lee
312. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- Bruce Lee
313. In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
- Bruce Lee
314. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
- Bruce Lee
315. It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.
- Bruce Lee
316. 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.
- Bruce Lee
317. Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!
- Bruce Lee
318. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- Bruce Lee
319. It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.
- Bruce Lee
320. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Bruce Lee
321. There are too many stars and too few actors.
- Bruce Lee
322. 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.
- Bruce Lee
323. In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
- Bruce Lee
324. I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
- Bruce Lee
325. A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.
- Bruce Lee
326. To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.
- Bruce Lee
327. 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
328. As you think, so shall you become.
- Bruce Lee
329. The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.
- Bruce Lee
330. I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a r
- Bruce Lee
331. Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
- Bruce Lee
332. There’s so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?
- Bruce Lee
333. Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.
- Bruce Lee
334. One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
- Bruce Lee
335. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.
- Bruce Lee
336. Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
- Bruce Lee
337. To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.
- Bruce Lee
338. Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Bruce Lee
339. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- Bruce Lee
340. You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
- Bruce Lee
341. Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
- Bruce Lee
342. Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
- Bruce Lee
343. I don’t want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.
- Bruce Lee
344. It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Bruce Lee
345. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
- Bruce Lee
346. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.
- Bruce Lee
347. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
- Bruce Lee
348. Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
- Bruce Lee
349. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
- Bruce Lee
350. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
- Bruce Lee
351. Running water never grows stale.
- Bruce Lee
352. Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.
- Bruce Lee
353. 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
354. Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.
- Bruce Lee
355. Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
- Bruce Lee
356. Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual’s martial art but also for his life as a human being.
- Bruce Lee
357. If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
- Bruce Lee
358. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
- Bruce Lee
359. A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
- Bruce Lee
360. The unconditioned mind intuits truth.
- Bruce Lee
361. You cannot force the Now. – But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
- Bruce Lee
362. If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can’t expect more from life.
- Bruce Lee
363. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
- Bruce Lee
364. 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
365. Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.
- Bruce Lee
366. You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee
367. The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
- Bruce Lee
368. True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.
- Bruce Lee
369. The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee
370. 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
371. Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
- Bruce Lee
372. 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
373. Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
- Bruce Lee
374. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
- Bruce Lee
375. To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.
- Bruce Lee
376. My strength comes from my abdomen. It’s the center of gravity and the source of real power.
- Bruce Lee
377. Linda and I aren’t one and one. We are two halves that make a whole – two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!
- Bruce Lee
378. Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
- Bruce Lee
379. Be like water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee
380. To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
- Bruce Lee
381. What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.
- Bruce Lee
382. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.
- Bruce Lee
383. There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
- Bruce Lee
384. Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
- Bruce Lee
385. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
- Bruce Lee
386. Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
- Bruce Lee
387. To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
- Bruce Lee
388. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day – sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.
- Bruce Lee
389. Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
- Bruce Lee
390. 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
391. The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
- Bruce Lee
392. 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
393. Emptiness the starting point. – In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
- Bruce Lee
394. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
- Bruce Lee
395. Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves.
- Bruce Lee
396. 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
397. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- Bruce Lee
398. The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
- Bruce Lee
399. Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.
- Bruce Lee
400. For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.
- Bruce Lee
401. Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
- Bruce Lee
402. What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
- Bruce Lee
403. Obey the principles without being bound by them.
- Bruce Lee
404. Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.
- Bruce Lee
405. Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
- Bruce Lee
406. The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.
- Bruce Lee
407. A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
- Bruce Lee
408. Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that’s when he stops growing.
- Bruce Lee
409. It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
- Bruce Lee
410. It’s the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.
- Bruce Lee
411. Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.
- Bruce Lee
412. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
- Bruce Lee
413. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee
414. Boards don’t hit back.
- Bruce Lee
415. Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.
- Bruce Lee
416. Don’t ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.
- Bruce Lee
417. Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
- Bruce Lee
418. Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.
- Bruce Lee
419. I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
- Bruce Lee
420. I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.
- Bruce Lee
421. Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.
- Bruce Lee
422. The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to ‘do’ the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.
- Bruce Lee
423. Either you understand or you don’t, and that is that.
- Bruce Lee
424. Don’t be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can’t turn it into a defense.
- Bruce Lee
425. Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
- Bruce Lee
426. The doubters said, ‘Man can not fly,’ The doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.
- Bruce Lee
427. Observe what is with undivided awareness.
- Bruce Lee
428. Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.
- Bruce Lee
429. A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one’s status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.
- Bruce Lee
430. I did what I came here to do. What I’ve done I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life.
- Bruce Lee
431. People fear what they do not understand.
- Bruce Lee
432. Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
- Bruce Lee
433. The reward is found in the work.
- Bruce Lee
434. The moment is freedom. – I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
- Bruce Lee
435. What Is, is more important than What Should Be.
- Bruce Lee
436. Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
- Bruce Lee
437. The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
- Bruce Lee
438. The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.
- Bruce Lee
439. False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.
- Bruce Lee
440. 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
441. Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man’s mind can conceive and believe.
- Bruce Lee
442. The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
- Bruce Lee
443. Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.
- Bruce Lee
444. Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
- Bruce Lee
445. Live a life worth remembering.
- Bruce Lee
446. Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: ‘When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.’
- Bruce Lee
447. Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
- Bruce Lee
448. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
- Bruce Lee
449. It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don’t care how good I am or what I do to him- he’s gonna get my nose.
- Bruce Lee
450. Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
- Bruce Lee
451. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- Bruce Lee
452. If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying.
- Bruce Lee
453. The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.
- Bruce Lee
454. You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.
- Bruce Lee
455. Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.
- Bruce Lee
456. The More we value things, the less we value ourselves.
- Bruce Lee
457. My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
- Bruce Lee
458. The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
- Bruce Lee
459. If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
- Bruce Lee
460. Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
- Bruce Lee
461. Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.
- Bruce Lee
462. The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being.
- Bruce Lee
463. Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.
- Bruce Lee
464. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee
465. The timeless moment. – The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
- Bruce Lee
466. You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.
- Bruce Lee
467. Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.
- Bruce Lee
468. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
- Bruce Lee
469. I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
- Bruce Lee
470. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.
- Bruce Lee
471. The word “superstar” is an ilusion.
- Bruce Lee
472. To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don’t stop and interpret “I am free,” then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone before.
- Bruce Lee
473. One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
- Bruce Lee
474. 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. 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
475. It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.
- Bruce Lee
476. The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.
- Bruce Lee
477. The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.
- Bruce Lee
478. Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
- Bruce Lee
479. Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.
- Bruce Lee
480. Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
- Bruce Lee
481. All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- Bruce Lee
482. One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don’t work, then introduce the more complex ones.
- Bruce Lee
483. The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead – big possibilities. Like the song says, We’ve just begun.
- Bruce Lee
484. Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
- Bruce Lee
485. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
- Bruce Lee
486. A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.
- Bruce Lee
487. 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
488. Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.
- Bruce Lee
489. Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice – continuous effort.
- Bruce Lee
490. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
- Bruce Lee
491. Put ‘going the extra mile’ to work as part of one’s daily habit.
- Bruce Lee
492. The possession of anything begins in the mind.
- Bruce Lee
493. Let the spirit out – Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one’s bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
- Bruce Lee
494. We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create.
- Bruce Lee
495. When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!
- Bruce Lee
496. Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.
- Bruce Lee
497. If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.
- Bruce Lee
498. Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.
- Bruce Lee
499. Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
- Bruce Lee
500. When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.
- Bruce Lee
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