Bruce Lee
143 quotes
Biography
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
"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."
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
"Be happy, but never satisfied."
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
"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."
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."
"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."
"The More we value things, the less we value ourselves"
"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."
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
"Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
"As you think, so shall you become."
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."