Famous Bruce Lee Quotations

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"Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do."
by Bruce Lee
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
by Bruce Lee
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
by Bruce Lee
"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul"
by Bruce Lee
"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."
by Bruce Lee
"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity."
by Bruce Lee
"As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization."
by Bruce Lee
"Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected."
by Bruce Lee
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, 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."
by Bruce Lee
"Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."
by Bruce Lee
"If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life"
by Bruce Lee
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
by Bruce Lee
"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."
by Bruce Lee
"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."
by Bruce Lee
"One great cause of failure is lack of concentration."
by Bruce Lee
"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment."
by Bruce Lee
"The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering."
by Bruce Lee
"To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities"
by Bruce Lee
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
by Bruce Lee
"To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions."
by Bruce Lee
"True refinement seeks simplicity."
by Bruce Lee
"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."
by Bruce Lee
"When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned."
by Bruce Lee
"Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply"
by Bruce Lee
"You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash, drip, flow...be water my friend"
by Bruce Lee
"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"
by Bruce Lee
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
by Bruce Lee
"The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun."
by Bruce Lee
"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."
by Bruce Lee
"LINDA: A philosophy major? Now what can you do with a philosophy major? BRUCE LEE: You can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."
by Anonymous
"Linda Emery: A philosophy major? Now, what can you do with a philosophy major? Bruce Lee: You can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."
by Dragon, the Bruce Lee Story
"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."
by Bruce Lee
"The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation."
by Bruce Lee
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
by Bruce Lee
"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand."
by Bruce Lee
"Freedom is achieved only when man cares no longer about the impression he is making or about to make."
by Bruce Lee
"He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple- Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep - Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise- follow him."
by Bruce Lee


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