Bruce Lee quotes
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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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“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.”
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“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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“The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.”
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“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”
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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
-- Bruce LeeSource : Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing
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“There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.”
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“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 LeeSource : "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.
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“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.”
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“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
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“Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.”
-- Bruce LeeSource : Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing
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“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
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“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.”
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“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”
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“Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.”
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“Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.”
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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
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“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.”
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“Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”
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“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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“Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
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“Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.”
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
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“Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”
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“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere”
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“Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”
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“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the 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.”
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“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!!”
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“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
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“‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
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“If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering”
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“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
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“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.”
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“No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.”
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“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
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“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
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“If you make an ***** out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.”
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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
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“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
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“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”
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“There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.”
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“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”
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“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
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“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
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“The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”
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“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
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“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”
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“If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.”
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“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
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“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”
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“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.”
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“Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.”
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“He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.”
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“You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.”
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“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.”
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“A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.”
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“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”
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“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.”
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“I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.”
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“Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.”
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“Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.”
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“Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.”
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“Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.”
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“You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.”
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“If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”
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“The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.”
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“To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.”
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“The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.”
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“To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.”
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“The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.”
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“Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.”
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“If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.”
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“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”
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“Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.”
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“Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.”
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“A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.”
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“Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain”
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“To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.”
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“I personall do not believe in 'style'. Because of 'styles', people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law.”
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“Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.”
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“When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.”
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“Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.”
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“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.”
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“It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.”
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“A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.”
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“By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.”
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“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.”
-- Bruce LeeSource : "Looking At The 'Sunny' Side Of Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 17, 2008.
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“To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.”
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“Emptiness 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.”
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“If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.”
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“A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.”
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