You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Goals
The doubters siad,
“Man can not fly,
The doers aid,
“Maybe, but we’ll try,
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.
—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-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. 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.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Happiness
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Opportunity
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead—big possibilities. Like the song says, “We’ve just begun.”
—Bruce Lee
Topics: The Future, Future
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
—Bruce Lee
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Chance, Circumstance
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside all patterns.
—Bruce Lee
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Control
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Change
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.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Time Management
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless—like water. Now 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.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Creativity, Friend, Water, Thoughts, Mind, Meditation
Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Mistakes, Failures
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
—Bruce Lee
Let the spirit out—Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one’s bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Awareness
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
—Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking
As long as we separate this ‘oneness’ into two, we won’t achieve realization.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Accomplishment
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Expectation
The spiritual force transcends all.—I feel this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Determination, Thoughts, Spirit, Confidence, Vision, Spirituality, Great, Spiritual, Faith
The timeless moment.—The ‘moment’ has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Time Management
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce, But still only light and flickering. As love grows older, Our hearts mature And our love becomes as coals, Deep-burning and unquenchable.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Love, Romance
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Personality
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Challenges, Life, Courage
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.
—Bruce Lee
It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Simplicity, Time Management, Productivity
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always run to simplicity.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Simplicity
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Creativity
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Philosophy
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
—Bruce Lee
Topics: Value, Time Management
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