Bruce Lee Quotes

#1. The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

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#2. The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.

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#3. The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

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#4. Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

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#5. You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

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

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#7. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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#8. Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

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#9. 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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#10. Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

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#11. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

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#12. 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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#13. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

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#15. Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

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#16. I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

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

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#18. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

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#19. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

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#20. The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

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#21. 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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#22. Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

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#23. Relationship is a process of self-revelation.

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#24. Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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#25. Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. - Bruce Lee

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#26. There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

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#27. We do not become. We simply are.

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#28. By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

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#29. The poorer we are
inwardly,
the more we try to
enrich ourselves
outwardly.

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#30. I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!

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#31. The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

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#32. It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

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#33. 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.

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#34. Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

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#35. Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

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#36. 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.

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#37. Living exists when life lives through us ... life is a living now!

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#38. The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

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#39. Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

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#40. To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

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#41. When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

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

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#43. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

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#44. The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

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#45. Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

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#46. Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

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#47. I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

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#48. 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.

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#49. The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

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

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#51. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself.

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#52. It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

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#53. Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

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#54. Either push your limits or die.

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#55. Efficiency is anything that scores.

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#56. Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.

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#57. Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

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#58. To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

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#59. What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

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#60. Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

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#61. Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

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#62. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

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#63. If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

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#64. 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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#65. If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

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#66. When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

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#67. Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

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#68. I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.

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#69. When one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.

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#70. Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

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#71. True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.

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#72. The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.

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#73. Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

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#74. Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

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#75. I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

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#76. Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

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#77. A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

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#78. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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#79. Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

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#80. 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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#81. There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

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#82. The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

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#83. We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

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#84. Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

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#89. The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

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#90. When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

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#91. The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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#92. I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

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#93. water is fearless,you put water into a cup,it becomes the cup ,you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot,water can flow drip ,creap,or crash!

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#94. More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

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#95. It doesn't matter you were born as Legend
But what does matter is Legendary End.
Think About It.

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#96. 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.

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#97. I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

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#98. Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

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#99. Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

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#100. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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