Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Bruce Lee

52. “Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.”

— Bruce Lee

53. “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

— Bruce Lee

54. “To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.”

— Bruce Lee

55. “Be a practical dreamer backed by action.”

— Bruce Lee

56. “Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”

— Bruce Lee

57. “Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.”

— Bruce Lee

58. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

— Bruce Lee

59. “Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.”

— Bruce Lee

60. “Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”

— Bruce Lee

61. “Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”

— Bruce Lee

62. “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

63. “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.”

— Bruce Lee

64. “Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”

— Bruce Lee

65. “Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.”

— Bruce Lee

66. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”

— Bruce Lee

67. “You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.”

— Bruce Lee

68. “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

69. “If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

71. “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.”

— Bruce Lee

72. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.”

— Bruce Lee

73. “Live a life worth remembering.”

— Bruce Lee

74. “All knowledge is ultimately self-knowledge.”

— Bruce Lee

75. “Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”

— Bruce Lee

76. “Low aim, not failure, is the crime.”

— Bruce Lee

77. “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”

— Bruce Lee

78. “A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.”

— Bruce Lee

79. “We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”

— Bruce Lee

80. “Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”

— Bruce Lee

81. “Take what’s useful, discard what is not.”

— Bruce Lee

82. “Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose – to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!”

— Bruce Lee

83. “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”

— Bruce Lee

84. “Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

— Bruce Lee

85. “Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

— Bruce Lee

86. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

— Bruce Lee

87. “It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don’t care how good I am or what I do to him- he’s gonna get my nose.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

89. “Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.”

— Bruce Lee

90. “If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”

— Bruce Lee

91. “Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”

— Bruce Lee

92. “Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.”

— Bruce Lee

93. “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

94. “To change with change is the changeless state.”

— Bruce Lee

95. “What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”

— Bruce Lee

96. “It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.”

— Bruce Lee

97. “Flow in the living moment – We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.”

— Bruce Lee

98. “By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.”

— Bruce Lee

99. “Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”

— Bruce Lee

100. “The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.”

— Bruce Lee