Bruce Lee Lee Quotes & Sayings

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

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

To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before. — Bruce Lee

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. — Bruce Lee

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

Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance. — Bruce Lee

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. — Bruce Lee

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 — Bruce Lee

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless. — Bruce Lee

The attitude, "You can win if you want to badly enough," means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too "tough" to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams. — Bruce Lee

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Bruce Lee

You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither 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

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one. — Bruce Lee

I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly. — Lucy Griffiths

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

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

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation. — Bruce Lee

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming. — Bruce Lee

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

What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'? — Bruce Lee

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

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing. — Bruce Lee

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

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. — Bruce Lee

All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body. — Bruce Lee

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

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. — Bruce Lee

A conditioned mind is never a free mind. — Bruce Lee

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

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. — Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Willing is not enough, one must apply. — Bruce Lee

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end. — Bruce Lee

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

Never try to copy a successful personality. — Bruce Lee

She's like Bruce Lee, the Hulk and Neo from The Matrix all rolled in to one. — Kendare Blake

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more. — Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing. — Benedict Wong

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

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee

The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality
to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle. — Bruce Lee

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them. — Bruce Lee

When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The — Bruce Lee

Running water never grows stale. — Bruce Lee

I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way. — Bruce Lee

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

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time. — Bruce Lee

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living. — Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. — Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee's fast pace, Jet Li's pretty style and Jet Li's acrobatics combine with Muay Thai for my own style. — Tony Jaa

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go. — Eddie Izzard

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. — Jackie Chan

Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries - only those you make yourself. — Bruce Lee

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

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being. — Bruce Lee

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances! — Bruce Lee

I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way. — Gary Clark Jr.

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

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality. — Bruce Lee

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. — Bruce Lee

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body! — Bruce Lee

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you. — Bruce Lee

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. — Bruce Lee

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind. — Bruce Lee

If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level. — Bruce Lee

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it. — Bruce Lee

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity. — Bruce Lee

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world. — Bruce Lee

Zen is not "attained" by mirror-wiping mediation, but by "self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now." We do not "come", we "are." Don't strive to become, but be. — Bruce Lee

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

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. — Bruce Lee

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

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful. — Bruce Lee

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. — Bruce Lee

The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie. — Bruce Lee

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. — 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

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits. — Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan. — Jackie Chan

Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it. — Bruce Lee

Boards don't hit back. — Bruce Lee

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike. — Bruce Lee

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it. — Bruce Lee

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man. — 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

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. — Bruce Lee

Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own — Tatchakorn Yeerum

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down — Bruce Lee

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

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself. — Bruce Lee

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

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form. — Bruce Lee

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. — Bruce Lee

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. — Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others. — Bruce Lee

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge. — Bruce Lee

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition — Bruce Lee