Top 400 Bruce Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

303. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

305. “I did what I came here to do. What I’ve done I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life.”

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— 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. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

315. “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

316. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

321. “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

322. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

327. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

330. “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

331. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

333. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

335. “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

336. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

338. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

340. “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

341. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

343. “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

344. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Bruce Lee

347. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

349. “A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.”

— Bruce Lee

350. “To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.”

— Bruce Lee