Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.”

— Bruce Lee

302. “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

303. “When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!”

— Bruce Lee

304. “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

305. “If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.”

— Bruce Lee

306. “My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

308. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

310. “Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!”

— Bruce Lee

311. “The success of an assailant’s attack depends on surprise, and if you’re sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.”

— Bruce Lee

312. “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

313. “Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing.”

— Bruce Lee

314. “There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don’t believe it.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

316. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

318. “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

319. “I’ve come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

321. “Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

323. “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

324. “More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself – and that’s about it.”

— Bruce Lee

325. “An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.”

— Bruce Lee

326. “The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”

— Bruce Lee

327. “Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.”

— Bruce Lee

328. “False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

330. “Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.”

— Bruce Lee

331. “Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”

— Bruce Lee

332. “Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.”

— Bruce Lee

333. “It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.”

— Bruce Lee

334. “There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.”

— Bruce Lee

335. “To take responsibility for one’s own actions, good and bad, is something else.”

— Bruce Lee

336. “The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.”

— Bruce Lee

337. “To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.”

— Bruce Lee

338. “The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.”

— Bruce Lee

339. “The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.”

— Bruce Lee

340. “It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.”

— Bruce Lee

341. “To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.”

— Bruce Lee

342. “Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”

— Bruce Lee

343. “Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.”

— Bruce Lee

344. “When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.”

— Bruce Lee

345. “To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.”

— Bruce Lee

346. “Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.”

— Bruce Lee

347. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”

— Bruce Lee

348. “Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.”

— Bruce Lee

349. “Either you understand or you don’t, and that is that.”

— Bruce Lee

350. “Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.”

— Bruce Lee