Bruce Lee Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

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

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

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

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

“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.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

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

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

“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.”

“Do not 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.”