Bruce Lee Quotes

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically 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 plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

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.

Under duress, we do not rise to our expectations – we fall to the level of our training.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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.

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

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Absorb what is useful from any source, discard what is not from even the most revered of sources.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.