Bruce Lee Quotes

“Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.”

“Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.”

“I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.”

“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

“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”

“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”

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

“What can you take from me which is not already yours?”

“If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.”

“It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.”

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

“If you always put limit 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.”

“Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

“Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”

“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.”

“To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.”

“I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.”

“You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.”

“All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.”

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

“Truth cannot be structured or confined.”

“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”

“The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.”

“Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”

“Either push your limits or die.”