50 Motivational Bruce Lee Quotes:
#1 “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.”
#2 “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.”
#3 “As you think, so shall you become.”
#4 “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
#5 “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
#6 “In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
#7 “Don’t speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn’t know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that’s why it’s called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”
#8 “The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
#9 “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
#10 “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
#11 “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.”
#12 “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
#13 “Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
#14 “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
#15 “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
#16 “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
#17 “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
#18 “The More we value things, the less we value ourselves.”
#19 “Real living is living for others.”
#20 “Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
#21 “Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”
#22 “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
#23 “It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
#24 “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
#25 “Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”
#26 “If you think a thing is impossible,you’ll only make it impossible.”
#27 “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
#28 “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
#29 “Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
#30 “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
#31 “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”
#32 “All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
#33 “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.”
#34 “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own”
#35 “It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
#36 “Be happy, but never satisfied.”
#37 “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.”
#38 “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
#39 “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
#40 “If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
#41 “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
#42 “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
#43 “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”
#44 “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
#45 “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
#46 “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
#47 “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
#48 “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
#49 “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”
#50 “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”