200 Bruce Lee Inspirational & Famous Quotes About Life

Which is your favourite Bruce Lee quotes?

These motivational and inspirational  Bruce Lee Quotes have the potential to change your life. It is our misfortune that we lost the hero very soon but his words will always guide us.

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Bruce Lee was a famous Hong Kong American actor, tremendous martial artist and philosopher. Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in California (San Francisco). His parents’ names are Lee Hoi-Chuen (Father) and Grace Ho (Mother). He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, where he taught martial arts to many people.

Lee achieved many achievements during his lifetime. He has been known as the pop culture icon of the 20th century. Bruce Lee introduced the countries of the Western world to martial arts and also paved the way for Asian stars in films. He was an actor from his early days but he got real fame in one of his shows ‘The Green Hornet’ (1966-67).

Bruce Lee did many movies and shows, but films like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘The Chinese Connection’ earned a record-breaker. Some of his films faced American critics’ bad reviews, but these films were blockbuster hits in cities like Hong Kong.

By the end of 1972, Bruce Lee had become a well-known celebrity in Asia. His upcoming films included ‘Enter the Dragon’, which was a Hollywood project. But unfortunately our hero Bruce Lee died of Cerebral Edema on July 20, 1973 (Age 32) just a month before the release of the film.

My English Lobby presents to you 100 Bruce Lee quotes that are a symbol of respect for humanity. Bruce Lee wanted man to become self-reliant and his all-around development through self-reflection.

1 to 20 Bruce Lee Inspirational Famous Quotes

01. “On humbleness. — To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals is courtesy; to inferiors is nobleness; and to all, safety!” – Bruce Lee

02. “With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection.” – Bruce Lee

03. “If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them” – Bruce Lee

04. “Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be made less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended, and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.” – Bruce Lee

05. “Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book” – Bruce Lee

06. “Having one’s own will. — What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn’t it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one’s soul, the master of one’s life? Now, what causes such realization and, consequently, brings about a change in one’s behaviour? TO BE REAL, TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONESELF.” – Bruce Lee

07. “Art is the expression of self; the more complex and restrictive a method, the less opportunity for expression of one’s basic sense of freedom.” – Bruce Lee

08. “The less confident we are in ourselves, the less in touch we are with ourselves and the world, the more we want to be controlled.” – Bruce Lee

09. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for life is what time is made of.” – Bruce Lee

10. “As you think, So shall you become.” – Bruce Lee

11. “Many people dedicate their lives to realizing the concept of what they should be like instead of realizing themselves. This distinction between self-actualization and self-image realization is very important. Most people live only for their image. – Bruce Lee

12. “No use of any kind in any way, as a limit there is no limit.” – Bruce Lee

13. “Knowledge will give you strength, but character honours.” – Bruce Lee

14. “The soul of a person is determined by the habits of his predominant thoughts.” – Bruce Lee

15. “The idea is that running water never gets rancid, so just keep running.” –  Bruce Lee

16. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is exclusively yours” – Bruce Lee

17. “Boards don’t hit back.” – Bruce Lee

18. “Real living is living for others.” – Bruce lee

19. “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

20. “It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” – Bruce Lee

21 to 40 Bruce Lee Famous Water Quotes 

21. “Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.” – Bruce Lee

22. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee

23. “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.” – Bruce Lee

24. “The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you’ll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man, No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth. Be water, my friend..” – Bruce Lee

25. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.” – Bruce Lee

26. “Be like water making its way through cracks.
Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid outward things will disclose themselves.
Moving to be like water.
Still, be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.” – Bruce Lee

27. “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.” – Bruce Lee

28. “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. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee

29. “Defeat is not defeated unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.” – Bruce Lee

30. “The More we value things, the less we value ourselves.” – Bruce Lee

31. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” – Bruce Lee

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

33. “Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.” – Bruce Lee

34. “Using no way as a way, having no limitation as a limitation.” – Bruce Lee

35. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.” –  Bruce Lee

36. “For as long as I can remember, I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force that is greater than faith, ambition, confidence, determination, and vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.” – Bruce Lee

37. “In order to control me, I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” – Bruce Lee

38. “The word “superstar” is an illusion.” – Bruce lee

39. “I’m moving and not moving at all. I’m like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, “I am doing this,” but rather, an inner realization that “this is happening through me,” or “it is doing this for me.” The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.” – Bruce lee

40. “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.” – Bruce Lee

41 to 60 Bruce Lee Motivational Quotes About Life

41. “In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.” – Bruce Lee

42. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee

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

44. “If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it impossible.” – Bruce Lee

45. “Obey the principles without being bound by them.” – Bruce Lee

46. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” – Bruce Lee

47. “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” – Bruce Lee

48. “If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.” – Bruce Lee

49. “It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.” – Bruce Lee

50. “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

51. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” – Bruce Lee

52. “The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.” – Bruce Lee

53. “I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kicks but practiced it 10000 times.” – Bruce Lee

54. “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.” – Bruce Lee

55. “Linda and I aren’t one and one. We are two halves that make a whole — two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!” –  Bruce Lee

56. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” – Bruce Lee

57. “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.” – Bruce Lee

58. “The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical or anything else action.” – Bruce lee

59. “Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce lee

60. “Having totality means being capable of following “what is,” because “what is” is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of “what is.” – Bruce Lee

61 to 80 Bruce Lee Famous Quotes on Love

61. “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

62. “Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you’re tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.” – Bruce Lee

63. “Emotion can be the enemy, if you give in to your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions because the body always follows the mind.” – Bruce Lee

64. “All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.” – Bruce Lee

65. “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

66. “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practising, our work will become natural, skilful, swift, and steady.” – Bruce Lee

67. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.” – Bruce Lee

68. “To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.” – Bruce Lee

69. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” – Bruce Lee

70. “A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.” – Bruce Lee

71. “The disease of philosophy. – Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.” – Bruce Lee

72. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

73. “Anger should be expressed. – Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stuttering, and other means of torturing.” – Bruce Lee

74. “Learning is never commutative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.” – Bruce Lee

75. “When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit – it hits all by itself.” –  Bruce Lee

76. “If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.” – Bruce Lee

77. “Honestly expressing yourself… is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool…or I can make all kinds of phoney things, you see what I mean, blinded by it or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself…now that, my friend, is very hard to do.” – Bruce Lee

78. “Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.” – Bruce lee

79. “The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.” – Bruce lee

80. “It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.” – Bruce Lee

81 to 100 Inspiring Bruce Lee Famous Quotes

81. “Zen insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realise that there is no problem.” – Bruce Lee

82. “It’s not a daily increase but a daily decrease—hack away the unessential!” – Bruce Lee

83. “You cannot clear muddied water with your hand. — Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself. Who is there that can secure a state of absolute repose? But keep calm and let time go on, and the state of repose will gradually arrest.” – Bruce Lee

84. “The more we value things, the less we value ourselves. We should dedicate ourselves to being self-sufficient and not relying on external ratings of others for our happiness. So it is true that the more we value things, the less we value ourselves. The more we depend on others for respect, the less we are self-sufficient.” – Bruce Lee

85. “Anxiety. — Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can’t be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.” – Bruce Lee

86. “Be careful who you trust. Don’t trust anyone easily on this earth because all kinds of things are present here.” – Bruce Lee

87. “Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.” – Bruce Lee

88. “On the joy of exercise. — I really dig exercise. When I’m jogging early in the morning, boy! It’s sure refreshing. Although Hong Kong is one of the most crowded places in the world, I’m surprised by how peaceful it can be in the morning. Sure, there are people, but I become oblivious to them while I am running.” – Bruce Lee

89. “Let the spiritual growth through the ordinary. – Live content with little tools; Look for elegance instead of luxury and sophistication instead of fashion. Be worthy, not respected, not rich, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk softly, act clearly; Bear everything happily, do everything bravely, wait for opportunities, never be in a hurry. In a word, let the spiritual, the unrestricted and the unconscious develop through the ordinary.” – Bruce Lee

90. “The spirit is strengthened in sorrow. — Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.” – Bruce Lee

91. “Two primary ethical questions. — There are two types of problems related to ethical issues: Where does good or bad work come from? What makes an action bad or good?” – Bruce Lee

92. “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” – Bruce Lee

93. “I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach & will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I honestly do not know where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.” – Bruce Lee

94. “Life is a process, not a goal; a means but not an end; a constant movement rather than an established pattern.” – Bruce Lee

95. “Love is mathematically just. — Love, and you shall be loved — all love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.” –  Bruce Lee

96. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee

97. “A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in-crowd.” – Bruce Lee

98. “What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.” – Bruce lee

99. “Kindness and remembrance. — A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.” – Bruce lee

100. “Be water my friends.” – Bruce Lee

101 to 120 Powerful Bruce Lee Quotes on Simplicity

101. “The disease of philosophy. – Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.” – Bruce Lee

102. “Never trouble troubles till trouble troubles you. I will not offend willingly, nor will I be easily offended.” – Bruce Lee

103. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.” – Bruce Lee

104. “In Life, There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.” – Bruce Lee

105. “Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.” – Bruce Lee

106. “The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.” – Bruce Lee

107. “To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.” – Bruce Lee

108. “Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.” – Bruce Lee

109. “The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.” – Bruce Lee

110. “A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.” – Bruce Lee

111. “The attitude, “You can win if you want to badly enough,” means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too “tough” to take in order to win.” – Bruce Lee

112. “A conditioned mind is never a free mind.” – Bruce Lee

113. “If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.” – Bruce Lee

114. “To see a thing uncoloured by one’s own personal preferences and desire is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.” – Bruce Lee

115. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” –  Bruce Lee

116. “Anger should be expressed. – Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing.” – Bruce Lee

117. “When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit – it hits all by itself.” – Bruce Lee

118. “Honestly expressing yourself… is very difficult to do. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself…now that, my friend, is very hard to do.” – Bruce lee

119. “Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying” – Bruce lee

120. “Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.” – Bruce Lee

121 to 140 Quotes of Bruce Lee About Life & Pain

121. “It doesn’t matter you were born as Legend But what does matter is the Legendary End. Think About It.” – Bruce Lee

122. “Goals give life substance. – To strive actively to achieve some goals gives your life meaning and substance.” – Bruce Lee

123. “I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.” – Bruce Lee

124. “He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him, who knows not and he knows not, he is simple to teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, awaken him, who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow him.” – Bruce Lee

125. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

126. “The key to liberation is within. – Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that “In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.” – Bruce Lee

127. “Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.” – Bruce Lee

128. “Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression.” – Bruce Lee

129. “The path of self-realisation is the most difficult. -We acquire a sense of worth either by realising our talents, or by keeping busy, or by identifying ourselves with something apart from us – be it a cause, a leader, a group, possessions, and the like. Of the three, the path of self-realisation is the most difficult. It is taken when other avenues to a sense of worth are more or less blocked.” – Bruce Lee

130. “It is not a daily increase but a daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.” – Bruce Lee

131. “Do not practice finely skilled movements after you are tired, for you will begin to substitute gross motions for finer ones and generalized efforts for specific ones. Remember, wrong movements tend to supervene and the athlete’s progress is set back. Thus, the athlete practices fine skills only while he is fresh. When he becomes fatigued, he shifts to tasks employing gross movements designed principally to develop endurance.” – Bruce Lee

132. “The aim of education. – Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experience can only lead to superficiality.” – Bruce Lee

133. “Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” – Bruce Lee

134. “To see a thing uncoloured by one’s own personal preferences and desire is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.” – Bruce Lee

135. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” –  Bruce Lee

136. “Be Like Water” – Bruce Lee

137. “The difference between an expert and a novice fighter is that the expert makes use of each opportunity.” – Bruce Lee

138. “Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit.” – Bruce lee

139. “Sensitivity is not possible if you are afraid.” – Bruce lee

140. “Adversity causes the mind to think properly. — In a time when everything goes well, my mind is pampered with enjoyment, possessiveness, etc. Only in times of adversity, privation, or mishap, does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination of self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood.” – Bruce Lee

141 to 160 Bruce Lee Quotes About Expectation & Reality

141. “Some martial arts are very popular, real crowd-pleasers, because they look good, have smooth techniques. but beware! They are like a wine that has been watered. A diluted wine is not a real wine, not a good wine, hardly the genuine article. Some martial arts don’t look so good, but you know that they have a kick, a tang, a genuine taste. They are like olives. The taste may be strong and bittersweet. The flavour lasts. You cultivate a taste for them. NO one ever developed a taste for diluted wine.” – Bruce Lee

142. “The whip of the arm is caused by turning the body away from the arm until the range of movement in the shoulder joint is completely used. Then, the arm must turn with the body. Executed quickly, this causes the arm to whip forward as if released from a bow.” – Bruce Lee

143. “The good man wins a victory and then stops; he will not go on to acts of violent winning, he boasteth not, he will not triumph, he shows no arrogance. He wins because he cannot choose. After his victory, he will not be overbearing.” – Bruce Lee

144. “Love and respect. — Without respect, love cannot go long.” – Bruce Lee

145. “Kindness and remembrance. — A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.” – Bruce Lee

146. “The six principle steps of teaching. The motivation of the trainee Maintaining their complete attention Promoting mental activity (thinking) — discussion, question, lecture Creating a clear picture of material to be learned; outlining the material Developing comprehension of the significance, the implications, and the practical application of the material being presented (clear goals) Repetition of the five preceding steps until learning has taken place.” – Bruce Lee

147. “The two primary moral questions. — There are two sorts of problems concerning moral issues: Where does good or bad action derive from? What makes an action bad or good?” – Bruce Lee

148. “Let the spiritual grow up through the common. — Live content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. Be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.” – Bruce Lee

149. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” – Bruce Lee

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

151. “What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.” – Bruce Lee

152. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” – Bruce Lee

153. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

154. “The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.” – Bruce Lee

155. “The best techniques are the simple ones executed right.” –  Bruce Lee

156. “The more we understand, the greater and deeper will be your contact with all that is around us.” – Bruce Lee

157. “In order to taste my cup of water, you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is so useful? Because it is empty.” – Bruce Lee

158. “At this moment stop inwardly – when you do stop inwardly, psychologically, your mind becomes very peaceful, very clear. Then you can really look at “this.” – Bruce lee

159. “The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.” – Bruce lee

160. “The Six Diseases:

1. The desire for victory.
2. The desire to resort to technical cunning.
3. The desire to display all that has been learned.
4. The desire to awe the enemy.
5. The desire to play the passive role.
6. The desire to get rid of whatever disease one is affected by.” – Bruce Lee

161 to 180 Bruce Lee Quotes on Pray for The Strength

161. “To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.” – Bruce Lee

162. “If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.” – Bruce Lee

163. “The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire — soon it will go out.” – Bruce Lee

164. “Of course, you’re there. Death is always there.” – Bruce Lee

165. “I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.” – Bruce Lee

166. “Neither. I think of myself as a human being.” – Bruce Lee

167. “Using no way as a way; Having no limitation as a limitation.” – Bruce Lee

168. “You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it — it’s there. When you want to move — you are moving. And when you move, you are determined to move! Not accepting even one inch less than 100 per cent of your honest feelings. Not anything less than that. So that is the type of thing you have to train yourself into. To become one with your feelings so that, when you think — it is.” – Bruce Lee

169. “To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.” – Bruce Lee

170. “To be perfectly frank, I really do not.” – Bruce Lee

171. “I believe in sleeping.” – Bruce Lee

172. “I have changed from self-image actualization of self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance.” – Bruce Lee

173. “You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.” – Bruce Lee

174. “Walk on.” – Bruce Lee

175. “Emptiness is the starting point. – In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.” –  Bruce Lee

176. “Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.” – Bruce Lee

177. “Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is living now! So, in order to live life wholeheartedly, the answer is life simply is.” – Bruce Lee

178. “The aphorism “as a man thinketh in his heart so is he” contains the secret of life.” – Bruce lee

179. “Meaning is the relationship of the foreground figure to the background.” – Bruce lee

180. “Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.” – Bruce Lee

181 to 200 Bruce Lee Quotes From ‘Tao of Jeet Kune Do’ & ‘Striking Thoughts’

181. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” – Bruce Lee

182. “The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.” – Bruce Lee

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

184. “Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from the conclusion, while knowing is a movement.” – Bruce Lee

185. “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.” – Bruce Lee

186. “If you care for life, don’t waste your time; for time is what life is made of.” – Bruce Lee

187. “Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE.” – Bruce Lee

188. “Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.” – Bruce Lee

189. “The root is real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds “body feel” and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.” – Bruce Lee

190. “Jeet Kune Do rejects all restrictions imposed by form and formality and emphasizes the clever use of the mind and body to defend and attack.” – Bruce Lee

191. “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

192. “Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.” – Bruce Lee

193. “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

194. “Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.” – Bruce Lee

195. “Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.” –  Bruce Lee

196. “Possession of anything begins in the mind.” – Bruce Lee

197. “Thoughts are things.” – Bruce Lee

198. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.” – Bruce lee

199. “The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow.” – Bruce lee

200. “Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.” – Bruce Lee

Frequently Asked Questions on Bruce Lee Quotes

Q.1 What are the all-time Famous Bruce Lee Quotes?

Ans: The All-time famous Bruce Lee quote is “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”

Q.2 What is the Bruce Lee Quotes about Water?

Ans: Bruce Lee Quote about water is – “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

Q.3 Which are the Top 10 Bruce Lee Quotes?

Ans: The Top 10 Bruce Lee Quotes are given below:

1. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” – Bruce Lee

2. “As you think, So shall you become.” – Bruce Lee

3. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee

4.  “The word “superstar” is an illusion.” – Bruce lee

5. Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practising, our work will become natural, skilful, swift, and steady.” – Bruce Lee

6. “Be careful who you trust. Don’t trust anyone easily on this earth because all kinds of things are present here.” – Bruce Lee

7. “Love and respect. — Without respect, love cannot go long.” – Bruce Lee

8. “The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.” – Bruce Lee

9.  “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee

10. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

Q.4 What is Bruce Lee water Quotes?

Ans: “Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce lee

Q.5 What is Bruce Lee Quotes About Life?

Ans:   “Life is a process, not a goal; a means but not an end; a constant movement rather than an established pattern.” – Bruce Lee

Conclusion

Bruce Lee was one of the great heroes of this century. The quotes given by him will guide our life forever. In today’s era, we are in great need of such quotes which can boost us from the inside. He was a good Martial Artist as well as a good philosopher. My English Lobby always salutes such great people and will always try to take their words to all of you.

Source: All the quotes are written in this article are taken from various sources of the internet like GoodReads, Motivation King, Wikiquote etc.