Top 496 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Lee - Page 3

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Either push your limits or die.

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

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.

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

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

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

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!!

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

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

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.