Bruce Lee Quotes

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Lee

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

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What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Bruce Lee

Boards don't hit back.

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

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

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

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

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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

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.

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The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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

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

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As you think, so shall you become.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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Life is better lived than conceptualized.

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Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

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

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Real living is living for others.

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Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

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We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed.

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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

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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.

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

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Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.

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The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.

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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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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 spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

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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.

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

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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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Cease negative mental chattering. - If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

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Bruce Lee Biography

Born: November 27, 1940
Died: July 20, 1973

Bruce Lee was Chinese American actor, martial artist and philosopher. He is widely considered to be the most influential martial artist of all times.