Quotes from Bruce Lee


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Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.


To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.


Real living is living for others.


You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.


Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.


Obey the principles without being bound by them.


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.


Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.


Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.


It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.


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


The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.


The possession of anything begins in the mind.


As you think, so shall you become.


A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.


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


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


Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.


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


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