Bruce Lee Quotes: 18

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Be happy, but never satisfied.

• Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

• Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

• 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.

• It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

• You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

• The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

• The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

  Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

• Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

• Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

  Tao of Jeet Kune Do

• 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.

  Tao of Jeet Kune Do

• 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.

  Bruce Lee — Wisdom for the Way

• Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

  Tao of Jeet Kune Do