Here is a list of my favorite Bruce Lee quotes:

“All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

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

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“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’ll never get it done.”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

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

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

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

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

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“Real living is living for others.”

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

“Using no way as way, using no limitation as limitation.”

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.”

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

“A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.”

“Don’t think, feel….it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!”

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”

“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain.”

“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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.”

“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.”

“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”

“I have changed from self-image actualization to self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance.”

“You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.”

“Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.”

“Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.”

“Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.”

“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.”

“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”

“Seek to understand the root. — It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.”

“You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.”

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