Top 496 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Lee - Page 2

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

As you think, you shall become

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

People fear what they do not understand.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Be happy, but never satisfied.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

?The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

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

Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

I create opportunities.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

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

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

We do not become. We simply are.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

To tolerate is to insult.

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.