Bruce Lee Quotes

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

Love, Friendship, Fire

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

Success, Faith, Successful

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

Forgiveness, Courage, Mistakes

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.
Bruce Lee

Fear, Once, Times

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.
Bruce Lee

Life, Work, Everything

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee

Life, Love, Time

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

Learning, Wise, Fool

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Goal, Often, Simply

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

Power, Respect, Knowledge

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

Wind, While, Tree

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.
Bruce Lee

Human, Honest, Child

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee

Fool, Enough, Temper

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee

Life, Living, Worth

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee

Time, Thinking, Done

As you think, so shall you become.
Bruce Lee

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee

Fool, Off, Idea

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee

Real, Living, Others

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee

Truth, Outside, Patterns

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee

Daily, Away, Increase

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

Important, Living, Individual

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee

Thought, Wrong, Against

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.
Bruce Lee

True, Nothing, Special

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 27, 1940

Died: July 20, 1973

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