Bruce Lee Quotes

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

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.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves

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

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

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

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.