Bruce Lee has been regarded as one of the most legendary martial artists to ever live. He’s one of the most decorated action-film stars in the industry and his passing shocked the world. So, we decided to compile 25 Greatest Bruce Lee Quotes to celebrate his contributions.
Lee was among one of the most talented martial artists who studied hard and showed a lot of discipline. He starred in films such as Enter The Dragon and Fist of Fury according to his biography. Lee died at the young age of 32 due to a brain aneurysm prior to the release of Enter The Dragon. He was a pretty inspirational star who had many philosophies about life and martial arts.
Check out the 25 Greatest Bruce Lee Quotes below.
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
“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. 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.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
“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 truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.”
“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.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do.”
“Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
“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.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
“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.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”