Bruce Lee quotes

Bruce Lee, renowned martial artist, philosopher, and actor, left an indelible mark on the world. Born in San Francisco in 1940, Lee's passion for martial arts began at a young age. With his unparalleled athleticism and revolutionary Jeet Kune Do fighting style, he became a global icon. This SEO-friendly bio explores Bruce Lee's life, training, and movies, highlighting his influential legacy that continues to inspire millions worldwide. Embrace the legendary Bruce Lee and his philosophy of self-expression through martial arts.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

- Bruce Lee

The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

- Bruce Lee

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

- Bruce Lee

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

- Bruce Lee

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

- Bruce Lee

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

- Bruce Lee

I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

- Bruce Lee

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

- Bruce Lee

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

- Bruce Lee

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

- Bruce Lee

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

- Bruce Lee

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

- Bruce Lee

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

- Bruce Lee

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Bruce Lee

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

- Bruce Lee

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

- Bruce Lee

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

- Bruce Lee

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

- Bruce Lee

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

- Bruce Lee

But neither can you 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

Boards don’t hit back.

- Bruce Lee

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 pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

- Bruce Lee

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.

- 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.

- Bruce Lee

Be happy, but never satisfied.

- Bruce Lee

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

- Bruce Lee

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

- Bruce Lee

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

- Bruce Lee

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

- Bruce Lee