Bruce Lee Quotes (89) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Bruce Lee; born Lee Jun-fan; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American martial artist, actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, and filmmaker. The founder of Jeet Kune Do, Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. See website for more info - http://www.brucelee.com
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“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
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around 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
“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
― Bruce Lee
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
― Bruce Lee
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
― Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“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
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
― Bruce Lee
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
― Bruce Lee
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee
“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
― Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
― Bruce Lee
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee
“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, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“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
“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
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
― Bruce Lee
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
― Bruce Lee
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
― Bruce Lee
“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”
― Bruce Lee
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
― Bruce Lee
“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”
― Bruce Lee
“As you think, so shall you become.”
― Bruce Lee
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
― Bruce Lee
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
― Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“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
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“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, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“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
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
― Bruce Lee
“Boards don't hit back.”
― Bruce Lee
“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“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
“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
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
― Bruce Lee
“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
― Bruce Lee
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
― Bruce Lee
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Real living is living for others.”
― Bruce Lee
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
― Bruce Lee
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
― Bruce Lee
“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.
Sourced, Striking Thoughts (2000)p. 13”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
― Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
― Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
― Bruce Lee
“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
― Bruce Lee
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
― Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
― Bruce Lee
“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, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The word "superstar" is an ilusion”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
― Bruce Lee
“Water is fearless,you put water into a cup,it becomes the cup ,you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot,water can flow drip ,creap,or crash!”
― Bruce Lee
“If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“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
“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
― Bruce Lee
“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”
― Bruce Lee
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“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, Bruce Lee - Wisdom for the Way
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
― Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
― Bruce Lee
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
― Bruce Lee
“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
“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
― Bruce Lee
“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.”
― Bruce Lee
“...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
“Be like water making its way through crack.
Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid outward thigs will disclose themselves.
Moving be like water.
Still be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.”
― Bruce Lee
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