The Best Bruce Lee quotes

You will never get any more out of life than you expect. — Bruce Lee

Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination. — Bruce Lee

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself. — Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. — Bruce Lee

I did what I came here to do. What I’ve done I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life. — Bruce Lee

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. — Bruce Lee

I’ve come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized. — Bruce Lee

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier. — 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. — Bruce Lee

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity. — Bruce Lee

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. — Bruce Lee

Live a life worth remembering. — Bruce Lee

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. — Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. — Bruce Lee

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is. — Bruce Lee

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering. — Bruce Lee

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life. — Bruce Lee

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

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words. — Bruce Lee

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy. — Bruce Lee

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

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself. — Bruce Lee

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today? — Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others. — Bruce Lee

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. — Bruce Lee

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing. — Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless–like water. — Bruce Lee

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. — Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water. — Bruce Lee

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

Running water never grows stale. — Bruce Lee

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself. — Bruce Lee

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. — Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. — Bruce Lee

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. — Bruce Lee

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is so useful? Because it is empty. — Bruce Lee

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you. — Bruce Lee

Learn it all, then forget it all. — Bruce Lee

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

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat. — Bruce Lee

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. — Bruce Lee

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

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. — Bruce Lee

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become. — Bruce Lee

Truth cannot be structured or confined. — Bruce Lee

If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. — Bruce Lee

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book. — Bruce Lee

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world. — Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. — Bruce Lee

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

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth. — Bruce Lee

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. — Bruce Lee

After all, all knowledge simply means self–knowledge. — Bruce Lee

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge. — Bruce Lee

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. — Bruce Lee

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice. — Bruce Lee

The martial arts are ultimately self–knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang–ups. — Bruce Lee

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

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery–a process without end. — Bruce Lee

Here I am as a human being…how can I express myself, totally and completely? — Bruce Lee

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply! — Bruce Lee

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

When you freely express, you are the total style. — Bruce Lee

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. — Bruce Lee

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do — Bruce Lee

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality. — Bruce Lee

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the ‘old’, you derive security; from the ‘new’, you gain the flow. — Bruce Lee

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity … the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation. — Bruce Lee

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. — Bruce Lee

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. — Bruce Lee

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. — Bruce Lee

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived. — Bruce Lee

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. — Bruce Lee

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. — Bruce Lee

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. — Bruce Lee

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave. — Bruce Lee

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one’s body–with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee

Times are changing now, it’s better with all of these positive role models and that’s what i hope to become for the younger girls, to encourage them to take part in martial arts. — Bruce Lee

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius. — Bruce Lee

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. — Bruce Lee

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. — Bruce Lee

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible. — Bruce Lee

I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times. — Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done. — Bruce Lee

If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of. — Bruce Lee

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing. — Bruce Lee

The timeless moment.–The ‘moment’ has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time. — Bruce Lee

Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. — Bruce Lee

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential. — Bruce Lee

Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement. — Bruce Lee

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time. — Bruce Lee

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. — Bruce Lee

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation. — Bruce Lee

To be what I term a ‘quality’ human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is. — Bruce Lee