Bruce Lee Quotes
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251. “If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.”

— Bruce Lee

252. “It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.”

— Bruce Lee

253. “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

254. “Willing is not enough, one must apply.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

256. “Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.”

— Bruce Lee

257. “Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.”

— Bruce Lee

258. “The word “superstar” is an ilusion.”

— Bruce Lee

259. “All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.”

— Bruce Lee

260. “The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.”

— Bruce Lee

261. “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

262. “Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. – To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.”

— Bruce Lee

263. “Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.”

— Bruce Lee

264. “You cannot force the Now. – But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.”

— Bruce Lee

265. “The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and, more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.”

— Bruce Lee

266. “We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.”

— Bruce Lee

267. “Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.”

— Bruce Lee

268. “The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.”

— Bruce Lee

269. “Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.”

— Bruce Lee

270. “Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.”

— Bruce Lee

271. “Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.”

— Bruce Lee

272. “If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.”

— Bruce Lee

273. “Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual’s martial art but also for his life as a human being.”

— Bruce Lee

274. “One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don’t work, then introduce the more complex ones.”

— Bruce Lee

275. “Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.”

— Bruce Lee

276. “Before me now there is only one real fact – Death. The truth I have been seeking – this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So – we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.”

— Bruce Lee

277. “I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.”

— Bruce Lee

278. “Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that’s when he stops growing.”

— Bruce Lee

279. “The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being.”

— Bruce Lee

280. “The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

— Bruce Lee

281. “I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.”

— Bruce Lee

282. “When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.”

— Bruce Lee

283. “Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.”

— Bruce Lee

284. “Turn your sparring into play – but always play seriously.”

— Bruce Lee

285. “Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

— Bruce Lee

286. “When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

— Bruce Lee

287. “When one has no form, one can be all forms.”

— Bruce Lee

288. “Truth cannot be structured or confined.”

— Bruce Lee

289. “I don’t want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.”

— Bruce Lee

290. “Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.”

— Bruce Lee

291. “Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

— Bruce Lee

292. “Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.”

— Bruce Lee

293. “Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.”

— Bruce Lee

294. “The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.”

— Bruce Lee

295. “Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.”

— Bruce Lee

296. “To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.”

— Bruce Lee

297. “Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.”

— Bruce Lee

298. “Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”

— Bruce Lee

299. “I don’t believe in getting something for nothing.”

— Bruce Lee

300. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

— Bruce Lee