Bruce Lee Quotes

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

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.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

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

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

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.

We do not become. We simply are.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

I create opportunities.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

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

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.