Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”

— Bruce Lee

152. “Learn it all, then forget it all.”

— Bruce Lee

153. “Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

— Bruce Lee

154. “The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.”

— Bruce Lee

155. “Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don’t support them with strength and flexibility.”

— Bruce Lee

156. “When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.”

— Bruce Lee

157. “I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled.”

— Bruce Lee

158. “The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead – big possibilities. Like the song says, We’ve just begun.”

— Bruce Lee

159. “It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.”

— Bruce Lee

160. “To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”

— Bruce Lee

161. “A man must constantly exceed his level.”

— Bruce Lee

162. “You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.”

— Bruce Lee

163. “A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, “I” do not hit, “it” hits all by itself.”

— Bruce Lee

164. “You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.”

— Bruce Lee

165. “The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.”

— Bruce Lee

166. “The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.”

— Bruce Lee

167. “Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion.”

— Bruce Lee

168. “Running water never grows stale.”

— Bruce Lee

169. “To live is to express oneself freely.”

— Bruce Lee

170. “Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.”

— Bruce Lee

171. “I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.”

— Bruce Lee

172. “Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”

— Bruce Lee

173. “Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.”

— Bruce Lee

174. “A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.”

— Bruce Lee

175. “Belts are only good for holding up your pants.”

— Bruce Lee

176. “Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.”

— Bruce Lee

177. “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.”

— Bruce Lee

178. “Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.”

— Bruce Lee

179. “You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.”

— Bruce Lee

180. “Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.”

— Bruce Lee

181. “When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.”

— Bruce Lee

182. “The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

— Bruce Lee

183. “An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.”

— Bruce Lee

184. “The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

— Bruce Lee

185. “We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.”

— Bruce Lee

186. “The moment is freedom. – I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.”

— Bruce Lee

187. “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

— Bruce Lee

188. “Observe what is with undivided awareness.”

— Bruce Lee

189. “Emptiness the starting point. – In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.”

— Bruce Lee

190. “Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.”

— Bruce Lee

191. “In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”

— Bruce Lee

192. “The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

194. “I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.”

— Bruce Lee

195. “In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”

— Bruce Lee

196. “Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”

— Bruce Lee

197. “Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.”

— Bruce Lee

198. “Don’t ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.”

— Bruce Lee

199. “Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”

— Bruce Lee

200. “Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.”

— Bruce Lee