Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.”

— Bruce Lee

254. “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

255. “In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?”

— Bruce Lee

256. “Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

258. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

261. “I’m not a master. I’m a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I’m still learning. So I’m a student-master. I don’t believe in the word ‘master.’ I consider the master as such when they close the casket.”

— Bruce Lee

262. “Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

264. “Efficiency is anything that scores.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

267. “Truth cannot be structured or confined.”

— Bruce Lee

268. “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

269. “You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don’t want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.”

— Bruce Lee

270. “The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.”

— Bruce Lee

271. “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

272. “There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.”

— Bruce Lee

273. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

275. “A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.”

— Bruce Lee

276. “The timeless moment. – The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.”

— Bruce Lee

277. “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

278. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

280. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

282. “Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

284. “What Is, is more important than What Should Be.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

291. “Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.”

— Bruce Lee

292. “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

293. “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

294. “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

295. “If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

— Bruce Lee

296. “What can you take from me which is not already yours?”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

298. “We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create.”

— Bruce Lee

299. “A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.”

— Bruce Lee

300. “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