Bruce Lee Quotes
Lee Jun-fan popularly known as Bruce Lee, was born on the 27th of November, 1940 in Chinese Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States. He was a Hong Kong American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor and philosopher.
Bruce Lee is considered as the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. He died at the age of 32, on the 20th of July, 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
In this article, you will find a collection of popular Bruce Lee quotes about life, water, love and knowledge that will trigger your personal growth.
80 Famous Bruce Lee Quotes About Water, Life & Love
“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. – Bruce Lee
“Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” – 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
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” – Bruce Lee
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity” – Bruce Lee
“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is so useful? Because it is empty.”– Bruce Lee
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” – Bruce Lee
“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.” – Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities”. – Bruce Lee
“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
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.” – Bruce Lee
“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.” – Bruce Lee
“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” – Bruce Lee
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.” – Bruce Lee
“Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.”– Bruce Lee
“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you”– Bruce Lee
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”– Bruce Lee
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”– Bruce Lee
“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”– Bruce Lee
“But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.”– Bruce Lee
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”– Bruce Lee
“It is not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed in what you have learned.”– Bruce Lee
“If anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow. Perhaps he still does not understand man’s equality and love.”– Bruce Lee
“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”– Bruce Lee
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”– Bruce Lee
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”– Bruce Lee
“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.”– Bruce Lee
“Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”– Bruce Lee
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”– Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”– Bruce Lee
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” – Bruce Lee
“The more we value things, the less we value ourselves” – Bruce Lee
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
“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
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” – Bruce Lee
“I’m moving and not moving at all. I’m like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, “I am doing this,” but rather, an inner realization that “this is happening through me,” or “it is doing this for me.” The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.” – Bruce Lee
“Real living is living for others.” – Bruce Lee
“If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.” – Bruce Lee
“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.”- Bruce Lee
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.” – Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’.” – Bruce Lee
“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” – Bruce Lee
“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.” – Bruce Lee
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.” – Bruce Lee
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” – Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”– Bruce Lee
“You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”– Bruce Lee
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”– Bruce Lee
“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”– Bruce Lee
“I don’t know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die – and I go on, non-stop, going forward.”– Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”– Bruce Lee
“The best techniques are the simple ones executed right.”– Bruce Lee
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” – Bruce Lee
“There is no weapon more deadly than the will.”– Bruce Lee
“The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.”― Bruce Lee
“Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.”― Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done.”― Bruce Lee
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”― Bruce Lee
At this moment stop inwardly – when you do stop inwardly, psychologically, your mind becomes very peaceful, very clear. Then you can really look at “this.”– Bruce Lee
“The more we understand, the greater and deeper will be our contact with all that is around us.”– Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” – Bruce Lee
“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”– Bruce Lee
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is unique your own.”– Bruce Lee
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success”– Bruce Lee
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against.”– Bruce Lee
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” – Bruce Lee
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” – 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
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.” – Bruce Lee
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”– Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” – Bruce Lee
“As you think, so shall you become”. – Bruce Lee
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” – Bruce Lee
“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.” – Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” – Bruce Lee