Quotes by Bruce Lee

About Bruce Lee:

Bruce Lee is widely considered by commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Bruce Lee

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Bruce Lee

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Bruce Lee

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Bruce Lee

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

Bruce Lee

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapel...

Bruce Lee

In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.

Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done

Bruce Lee

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Bruce Lee

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Bruce Lee

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Bruce Lee

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become lik...

Bruce Lee

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Bruce Lee

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Bruce Lee

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, but yo...

Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.

Bruce Lee

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bruce Lee

Author Bio

  • NameBruce Lee
  • DescriptionChinese martial arts instructor, philosopher and actor
  • AliasesLee Jun-fan
  • BornNovember 27, 1940
  • DiedJuly 20, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Television Actor; Film Actor; Writer; Film Producer; Philosopher; Screenwriter; Actor