Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

Featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes

3. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

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4. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

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5. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

— Bruce Lee

6. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

8. “Be happy, but never satisfied.”

— Bruce Lee

9. “As you think, so shall you become.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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11. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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14. “Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

16. “If you always put limits 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

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17. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

Featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Greatness Quotes

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

Featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Wise Quotes

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

— Bruce Lee

21. “Be like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

23. “Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”

— Bruce Lee

24. “It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

— Bruce Lee

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25. “Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

27. “Real living is living for others.”

— Bruce Lee

28. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

— Bruce Lee

29. “The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

— Bruce Lee

30. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.”

— Bruce Lee

Featured in: Mind Quotes, Quotes About Water

31. “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”

— Bruce Lee

32. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

— Bruce Lee

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33. “Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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34. “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

Featured in: Love Quotes, Marriage Quotes

35. “Boards don’t hit back.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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37. “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

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38. “Either push your limits or die.”

— Bruce Lee

39. “Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

41. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

43. “Get maximum effect from minimum effort.”

— Bruce Lee

Featured in: Effort Quotes

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

— Bruce Lee

45. “People fear what they do not understand.”

— Bruce Lee

46. “Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.”

— Bruce Lee

47. “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”

— Bruce Lee

48. “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

— Bruce Lee

49. “The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” and finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.”

— Bruce Lee

50. “Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.”

— Bruce Lee