Quotes by Bruce Lee
“Be water, my friend.”
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
“As you think, so shall you become.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
“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.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. 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.”
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“Don’t pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
“The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.”
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”
“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.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
“Real living is living for others.”
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”