Bruce Lee Quotes

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. ~ Bruce Lee

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others. ~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen. ~ Daniel Wu

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

Running water never grows stale. ~ Bruce Lee

All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love. ~ Bruce Lee Bond

Either push your limits or die. ~ Bruce Lee

What Is, is more important than What Should Be. ~ Bruce Lee

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal. ~ Bruce Lee

Don't indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves ~ Bruce Lee

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being. ~ Bruce Lee

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself. ~ Bruce Lee

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

To live is to express oneself freely ~ Bruce Lee

My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America. ~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful. ~ Bruce Lee

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising. ~ Bruce Lee

If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched. ~ Tracy Morgan

The reward is found in the work. ~ Bruce Lee

Be a practical dreamer backed by action. ~ Bruce Lee

Take what's useful, discard what is not. ~ Bruce Lee

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness. ~ Bruce Lee

To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe. ~ Bruce Lee

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply! ~ Bruce Lee

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. ~ Bruce Lee

Simplicity is the key to brilliance. ~ Bruce Lee

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you. ~ Bruce Lee

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

Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it. ~ Bruce Lee

Learn it all, then forget it all. ~ Bruce Lee

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself. ~ Bruce Lee

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. ~ Bruce Lee

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

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

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

A conditioned mind is never a free mind. ~ 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

He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, awaken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow him. ~ Bruce Lee

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. ~ Bruce Lee

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

In early September, there come ~ Bruce Lee

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. ~ Bruce Lee

As you think, you shall become ~ Bruce Lee

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous. ~ Bruce Lee

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended. ~ Bruce Lee

If there is always light, you don't experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness. ~ Bruce Lee

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee

The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality. ~ Bruce Lee

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

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

Observe what is with undivided awareness. ~ Bruce Lee

I was raised on Bruce Lee. ~ Bridget Fonda

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself. ~ Bruce Lee

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. ~ Bruce Lee

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love. ~ Bruce Lee

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. ~ Bruce Lee

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down ~ Bruce Lee

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE ~ Timothy Ferriss

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 ~ Patrick James Ryan

Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? ... to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits. ~ Bruce Lee

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot ~ Bruce Lee

I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies. ~ Dakota Johnson

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support. ~ Bruce Lee

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe. ~ Bruce Lee

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That's the end. That's when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day. ~ Bruce Lee

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ? ~ Bruce Lee

I personall do not believe in 'style'. Because of 'styles', people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law. ~ Bruce Lee

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

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind. ~ Bruce Lee

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. ~ Bruce Lee

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible. ~ Bruce Lee

To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself - that, my friend, is very hard to do. ~ 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

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts. ~ Leo Howard

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

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

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes. ~ Bruce Lee

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. ~ Bruce Lee

Obey the principles without being bound by them. ~ Bruce Lee

The unfolding of the bare human soul ... that is what interests me. ~ Bruce Lee

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

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

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

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you. ~ Bruce Lee

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it. ~ Bruce Lee

I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times. ~ Bruce Lee

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat. ~ Bruce Lee

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

While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding. ~ Bruce Lee

As you think, so shall you become' Bruce Lee. ~ Faith Charity

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

What can you take from me which is not already yours? ~ Bruce Lee

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

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form. ~ Bruce Lee

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

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. ~ Bruce Lee

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory. ~ Bruce Lee

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization. ~ Bruce Lee

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

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