Actor, martial arts expert and an amazing athlete.
He possessed genuine superstar charisma and through a handful of films he left behind an unforgettable impression on the tapestry of modern cinema.
The greatest icon of martial arts cinema, and a key figure of modern popular culture.
The influence of Asian martial arts cinema can be seen today in so many other film genres including comedies, action, drama,
science fiction, horror and animation.....and they all have their roots in the greatness of Bruce Lee.
(1940 - 1973)
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
~ Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
~ 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
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
~ Bruce Lee
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
~ Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
~ Bruce Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
~ Bruce Lee
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~ Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
~ Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
~ 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
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
He was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
Known to the Chinese as Master Kong and to the rest of the world as Confucius, he created a philosophy
based on virtue and believed in honesty, respect, sincerity.
Confucius taught that it was not the satisfaction of the senses in the present moment that would bring true
happiness, but well-planned actions and the helping of fellow man which mattered most.
(551-479 BCE)
