Bruce Lee Quotes

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round 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.”

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

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

“I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.”

“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”

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

“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

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

“Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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

“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

“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.”

“Be like water, my friend.”

“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.”

“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“What is is more important than what should be. Too many people are looking at what is from a position of thinking what should be.”

“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.”

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”

“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”