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Bruce Lee Quotes

By Alan Reiner | Jul 16, 2024 | 30 quotes
  1. “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
  2. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

    Bruce Lee
  3. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

    Bruce Lee
  4. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

    Bruce Lee
  5. “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
  6. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

    Bruce Lee
  7. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

    Bruce Lee
  8. “It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

    Bruce Lee
  9. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

    Bruce Lee
  10. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

    Bruce Lee
  11. “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
  12. “If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

    Bruce Lee
  13. “Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”

    Bruce Lee
  14. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

    Bruce Lee
  15. “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
  16. “As you think, so shall you become.”

    Bruce Lee
  17. “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

    Bruce Lee
  18. “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

    Bruce Lee
  19. “The possession of anything begins in the mind.”

    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. “Real living is living for others.”

    Bruce Lee
  22. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

    Bruce Lee
  23. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

    Bruce Lee
  24. “Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

    Bruce Lee
  25. “You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”

    Bruce Lee
  26. “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
  27. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

    Bruce Lee
  28. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

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

    Bruce Lee
  30. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

    Bruce Lee

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