BRUCE LEE QUOTES II

Hong Kong American martial artist & actor (1940-1973)

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Tags: pessimism


Possession of anything begins in the mind.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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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.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew

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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

BRUCE LEE

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, 1971

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To tolerate is to insult.

BRUCE LEE

Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

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There are too many stars and too few actors.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Tags: actors


Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

BRUCE LEE

The Tao of Gung Fu

Tags: martial arts


What can you take from me which is not already yours?

BRUCE LEE

The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee


Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do


The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.

BRUCE LEE

Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way


The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Obey the principles without being bound by them.

BRUCE LEE

Bruce Lee: Artist of Life


Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Never take your eyes off your opponent ... even when you're bowing!

BRUCE LEE

Enter the Dragon


Under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.

BRUCE LEE

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, 1971


Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living


Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do


Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Tags: thinking


My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

BRUCE LEE

Enter the Dragon