Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”

— Bruce Lee

202. “My strength comes from my abdomen. It’s the center of gravity and the source of real power.”

— Bruce Lee

203. “When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.”

— Bruce Lee

204. “There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.”

— Bruce Lee

205. “From form to formless and from finite to infinite.”

— Bruce Lee

206. “Let the spirit out – Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one’s bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.”

— Bruce Lee

207. “The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.”

— Bruce Lee

208. “To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.”

— Bruce Lee

209. “The unconditioned mind intuits truth.”

— Bruce Lee

210. “Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man’s mind can conceive and believe.”

— Bruce Lee

211. “Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

— Bruce Lee

212. “The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form.”

— Bruce Lee

213. “If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

— Bruce Lee

214. “The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.”

— Bruce Lee

215. “He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.”

— Bruce Lee

216. “To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.”

— Bruce Lee

217. “Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.”

— Bruce Lee

218. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

— Bruce Lee

219. “Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.”

— Bruce Lee

220. “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

— Bruce Lee

221. “Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”

— Bruce Lee

222. “Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.”

— Bruce Lee

223. “Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.”

— Bruce Lee

224. “To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.”

— Bruce Lee

225. “A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one’s status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.”

— Bruce Lee

226. “Probably the most badass guy who ever lived on this planet!”

— Bruce Lee

227. “Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one’s own being – these are synonymous.”

— Bruce Lee

228. “When you freely express, you are the total style.”

— Bruce Lee

229. “With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.”

— Bruce Lee

230. “We do not become. We simply are.”

— Bruce Lee

231. “There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.”

— Bruce Lee

232. “The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.”

— Bruce Lee

233. “I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”

— Bruce Lee

234. “It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

— Bruce Lee

235. “Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be.”

— Bruce Lee

236. “People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.”

— Bruce Lee

237. “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.”

— Bruce Lee

238. “I think of myself as a human being.”

— Bruce Lee

239. “If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.”

— Bruce Lee

240. “We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day – sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.”

— Bruce Lee

241. “Seek freedom from the conformity of styles.”

— Bruce Lee

242. “I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.”

— Bruce Lee

243. “It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”

— Bruce Lee

244. “Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.”

— Bruce Lee

245. “In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

— Bruce Lee

246. “If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.”

— Bruce Lee

247. “One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others.”

— Bruce Lee

248. “A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.”

— Bruce Lee

249. “Don’t be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can’t turn it into a defense.”

— Bruce Lee

250. “Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”

— Bruce Lee