25 Famous Bruce Lee Quotes
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought.
With a career spanning British Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema. Known for his roles in five feature-length martial arts films, he is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema.
- “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “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
- “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
- “Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “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.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Its not what happens that counts… It’s how you react.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Knowing is not enough, You must apply” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.” ~ 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
- “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.” ~ Bruce Lee
