Bruce Lee
Lee Jun-fan, commonly known as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong American martial artist and actor who is widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the
42 quotes.
Quotes by Bruce Lee
- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
- Action is a high road to self-confidence and self-esteem.
- All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
- 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.
- An intelligent mind is one which is constantly learning, never concluding.
- 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.
- Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
- Be a practical dreamer backed by action.
- Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.
- Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!
- 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.
- Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
- Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
- 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.
- If you always put limits 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.
- If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?
- In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
- Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
- It is not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed in what you have learned.
- It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
- Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.
- Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
- Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
- No man is defeated unless he is discouraged.
- Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.
- Possession of anything begins in the mind.
- Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
- The best techniques are the simple ones executed right.
- The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
- The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
- 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.
- To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do.
- Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
- What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
- When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.