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)
– Bruce Lee Quotes –
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
~ Bruce Lee
Truth has no path. Truth is living, and therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy.
~ Bruce Lee
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
~ Bruce Lee
Real living is living for others.
~ Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
~ Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
~ 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
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe the techniques as though not observing.
~ Bruce Lee
Possess the eye of an eagle, the cunning of a fox, the agility and alertness of a cat with the courage, aggressiveness and fierceness of a panther, the striking power of a cobra and the resistance of a mongoose.
~ Bruce Lee
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him.
~ Bruce Lee
You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
~ Bruce Lee
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
~ Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.
~ 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
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into 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.
~ Bruce Lee
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
Establish nothing in regard to oneself. Pass quickly like the non-existent and be quiet as Purity. Those who gain lose. Do not precede others, always follow them.
~ Bruce Lee
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
~ Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
~ Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
~ Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
~ Bruce Lee
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
~ Bruce Lee
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
~ Bruce Lee
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
