Bruce Lee Quotes

Bruce Lee's Quotes

1. "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!!"

2. "The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."

3. "For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."

4. "A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. "

5. "Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."

6. "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

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

8. "Not being tense but ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but flexible, liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement & it is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."

9. "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."

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

11. "If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today."

12. "The doubters said,"Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," & finally soared in the morning glow, while non-believers watched from below."

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

14. "It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."

15. "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

16. "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

17. "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." (Simplified).

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

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

20. "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."

21. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times."

22. "If you always put limits 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."

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

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

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

26. "Be happy, but never satisfied."

27. "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

28. "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one"

29. "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

30. "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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." (Traditional).

These are all quotes Bruce Lee said himself & he said them for a reason of different meanings of teachings of life, peace & self discipline.

Bruce Lee was a very successful Martial Artist & he established his own form of martial art which is rare in the combat sports world; Jeet-Kune-Do, only two people know how to do it easily ju8st like him, his son Brandon Lee & his daughter Shannon Lee.

Bruce Lee would train before he was going up on the stage or when he needed to, he was a very patient individual. He was so into his life that even in his spare time he would do martial arts with the community in his local area because he was one of the best martial artists to train with in the neighbourhood.

Bruce Lee was a true God in the world of mixed martial arts & other combat sports.