Bruce Lee Inspirational Sayings

#1. I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Lee

#3. Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

Bruce Lee

#4. You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Beyonce Knowles

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

Bruce Lee

#6. There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Wait here.
Hell I am. Why?
Because you're six-five and have green hair and my grandfather doesn't know you and owns lots of guns.

Ransom Riggs

#8. A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.

Bruce Lee

#9. Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Lee

#11. Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

Bruce Lee

#12. ...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Alexandre Dumas

#13. Angeles in the plain-clothes division,

Erle Stanley Gardner

#14. Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.

Cormac McCarthy

#16. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

#17. 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.

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Lee

#20. Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Bruce Lee

#21. When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

Dan Auerbach

#22. 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.

Bruce Lee

#23. I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

Suzanne Finnamore

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

Bruce Lee

#25. The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

Joseph Addison

#26. Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Ramakrishna

#27. In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Joichi Ito

#28. Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Bruce Lee

#29. Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.

Bruce Lee

#30. In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still

Ken Dignan

#31. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Bruce Lee

#32. In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

Bruce Lee