Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Jeet Kune Do: it’s just a name; don’t fuss over it. There’s no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.”

— Bruce Lee

102. “To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don’t stop and interpret “I am free,” then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone before.”

— Bruce Lee

103. “Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.”

— Bruce Lee

104. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.”

— Bruce Lee

105. “Your state of mind is everything.”

— Bruce Lee

106. “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

— Bruce Lee

107. “I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”

— Bruce Lee

108. “The More we value things, the less we value ourselves.”

— Bruce Lee

109. “You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.”

— Bruce Lee

110. “Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.”

— Bruce Lee

111. “Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!”

— Bruce Lee

112. “Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”

— Bruce Lee

113. “Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”

— Bruce Lee

114. “The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.”

— Bruce Lee

115. “It’s the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.”

— Bruce Lee

116. “If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?”

— Bruce Lee

117. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”

— Bruce Lee

118. “If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

— Bruce Lee

119. “Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.”

— Bruce Lee

120. “True refinement seeks simplicity.”

— Bruce Lee

121. “The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.”

— Bruce Lee

122. “If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can’t expect more from life.”

— Bruce Lee

123. “If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.”

— Bruce Lee

124. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

— Bruce Lee

125. “In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”

— Bruce Lee

126. “I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.”

— Bruce Lee

127. “A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”

— Bruce Lee

128. “One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.”

— Bruce Lee

129. “The possession of anything begins in the mind.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

131. “The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”

— Bruce Lee

132. “Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice – continuous effort.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

134. “Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.”

— Bruce Lee

135. “Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.”

— Bruce Lee

136. “Put ‘going the extra mile’ to work as part of one’s daily habit.”

— Bruce Lee

137. “The reward is found in the work.”

— Bruce Lee

138. “Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”

— Bruce Lee

139. “Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

— Bruce Lee

140. “Concepts vs. self-actualization. – Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.”

— Bruce Lee

141. “Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.”

— Bruce Lee

142. “If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying.”

— Bruce Lee

143. “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”

— Bruce Lee

144. “Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.”

— Bruce Lee

145. “When finger point at moon, don’t look at finger or you’ll miss the moon.”

— Bruce Lee

146. “Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.”

— Bruce Lee

147. “Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.”

— Bruce Lee

148. “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

— Bruce Lee

149. “Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.”

— Bruce Lee

150. “Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.”

— Bruce Lee