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Bruce Lee Famous Quotes & Sayings

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A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

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.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

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

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

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

showing off is the fools's idea of glory.

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

To change with change is the changeless state

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

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

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

If you truly love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

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

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

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

The unfolding of the bare human soul ... that is what interests me.

Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

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

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

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

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

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

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

In early September, there come

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

Living exists when life lives through us ... life is a living now!

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

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

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

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

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

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

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

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

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee

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

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

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

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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

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

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.

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

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

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

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

Physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

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

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

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

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

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

There are too many stars and too few actors.