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Bruce Lee Quotes
Bruce lee was a friggin legend. He was very simplistic in his approach breaking down complexities of life into simplistic terms that created a cult following. Below are 149 Bruce Lee quotes that show how the man lived and countless words to live by! Enjoy
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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is specific to your own.” – Bruce Lee
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“The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.” – Bruce Lee
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“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.” – Bruce Lee
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, But I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times.” – Bruce Lee
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“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” – Bruce Lee
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“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.” – Bruce Lee
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“Learning is discovery, the discovery of the cause of our ignorance.” – Bruce Lee
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“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
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“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 love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” – Bruce Lee
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“Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.” – Bruce Lee
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“Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.” – Bruce Lee
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“Be water my friend. empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless. Like water. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.” – Bruce Lee
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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
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“Empty your mind. Be formless shapeless like water. It can flow or it can crash, be water my friend.” Bruce Lee
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“To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.” – Bruce Lee
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“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” – Bruce Lee
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“As you think, so shall you become.” – Bruce Lee
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
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“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” – Bruce Lee
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“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
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“Experiencing is believing. A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.” – Bruce Lee
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“Boards don’t hit back.” – Bruce Lee
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“The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness, only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.” – Bruce Lee
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“Every 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
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“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.” – Bruce Leet
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“If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.” – Bruce Lee
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“Use only that which works and take from any place you can find it.” – Bruce
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“But neither can you 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.”- Bruce Lee
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“I can walk away from millions because it’s not right. But I’ll be damned if I’ll back up an inch from a dime because it has to be.” – Bruce Lee
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“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
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“One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.” – Bruce Lee
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“Without frustration, you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.” – Bruce Lee
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“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement, you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take it’s course and your tools will strike at the right moment.” – Bruce Lee
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“To me, the function and duty of a human being is the sincere and honest development of hist potential and self actualization, not self image actualization.” – Bruce Lee
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“Any technique, however worth and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.” – Bruce Lee
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“Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd imitate.” – Bruce Lee
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“Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.” – Bruce Lee
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“Now I see that I will never find the light, unless like the candle, I am my own fuel consuming myself.” – Bruce Lee
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“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
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“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
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“When you are talking about fighting as it is, with no rules, well then baby you better train every part of your body!” – Bruce Lee
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“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself, that takes a lifetime.” – Bruce Lee
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“It’s not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” – Bruce Lee
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“The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion.” – Bruce Lee
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“Be flexible so you can change with change. Empty yourself. Open up.” – Bruce Lee
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“In the middle of chaos is opportunity.” – Bruce Lee
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“There are no limits, there are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
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“If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is every going to help you.” – Bruce Lee
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“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.” – Bruce Lee
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“I am not easily discouraged readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.” – Bruce Lee
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“Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into on’es own being – these are synonymous.” – Bruce Lee
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“In order to control myself, I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” – Bruce Lee
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“Life battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” – Bruce Lee
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“It’s not what happens that counts. It’s how you react.” – Bruce Lee
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“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.” – Bruce Lee
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“Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.” – Bruce LEe
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“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practice, our work will become natural, skillful, swift and steady.” – Bruce Lee
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“You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.” – Bruce Lee
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“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. IF you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow- you are not understanding yourself.” – Bruce Lee
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“Obey principles without being bound by them.” – Bruce Lee
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“Be happy but never satisfied.” – Bruce Lee
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“He who wants to succeed should learn to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot if lie if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.” – Bruce Lee
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“In order to taste my cup of water, you must first empty your cup.” – Bruce Lee
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“Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” – Bruce Lee
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“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” – Bruce Lee
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“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.” – Bruce Lee
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“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.” – Bruce Lee
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“Showing off is the fools idea of glory.” – Bruce Lee
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“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly no knowing where my limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.” – Bruce Lee
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“The moment is freedom. I couldn’t live my a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.” – Bruce Lee
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“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.” – Bruce Lee
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“He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.” – Bruce Lee
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“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” – Bruce Lee
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“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” – Bruce Lee
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
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“Real living is living for others. – Bruce Lee
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.” – Bruce Lee
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“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” – Bruce Lee
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“Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.” Bruce Lee
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“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a kung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.” – Bruce Lee
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“Wheat you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.” – Bruce Lee
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“My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.” – Bruce Lee
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“The less effort you put in, the more powerful you will be.” – Bruce Lee
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“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee
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“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” – Bruce Lee
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“The consciousness of self is the greatist hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.” – Bruce Lee
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“If you put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.” – Bruce Lee
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“If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it possible.” – Bruce Lee
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“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement, you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take it’s course and your tools will strike at the right moment.” – Bruce Lee
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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a foot can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
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“If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.” – Bruce Lee
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“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” – Bruce Lee
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“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.” – Bruce Lee
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“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.” -Bruce Lee
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“To hell with circumstances I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
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“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are weeds that strangle confidence.” – Bruce Lee
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“Go bravely on my friend because each experience teaches us a lesson.” – Bruce Lee
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“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.” – Bruce Lee
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“The doubters said – “Man can not fly”, the doers said “Maybe, but we’ll try”, and finally the soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.” – Bruce Lee
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“Fear comes from uncertainty we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.” – Bruce Lee
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“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside all patterns.” – Bruce Lee
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“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.” – Bruce Lee
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“The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it. Until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless like the candle, I am my own fuel.” – Bruce Lee
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“Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning for learning is boundless.” – Bruce Lee
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
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“Running water never grows stale.” – Bruce Lee
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“We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.” – Bruce Lee
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“The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
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“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
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“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” – Bruce Lee
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“The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.” – Bruce Lee
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“Be flexible so you can change, with change, empty yourself. Open up.” – Bruce Lee
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“Take not thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against.” – Bruce Lee
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“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” Bruce Lee
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“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
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“Drop and dissolve inner blockage. A condition mind is never a free mind. Wipe away and dissolve all it’s experience and be born afresh.” – Bruce Lee
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“Only in times of adversity, privation or mishap does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination or self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood.” – Bruce Lee
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“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow man.” – Bruce Lee
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Bring the mind into sharp focus so 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.” – Bruce Lee
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“Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we are constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.” – Bruce Lee
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“Train hard, work hard, stay focused.” – Bruce Lee
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“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
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“In order to realize our true self, we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinions of others.” – Bruce Lee
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“A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine. Each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly change and constantly adaption. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favorite pattern. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. A teacher is never a giver of truth, he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. I am not teaching you anything. I just help you explore yourself.” – Bruce Lee
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“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” – Bruce Lee
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“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.” – Bruce Lee
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“Do not fear failure – not failure but low aim is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee
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“Choose the positive, you have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.” – Bruce Lee
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“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.” – Bruce Lee
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“Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.” – Bruce Lee
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“Don’t think, feel. It is like a finger pointing the way to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” – Bruce Lee
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“Become devoid to gain totality.” – Bruce Lee
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“It’s no what you give, it’s the way you give it.” – Bruce Lee
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“Remember, my friend, to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.” – Bruce Lee
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“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.” – Bruce Lee
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“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down. “Why am I being knocked down?” If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.” – Bruce Lee
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“Be like water making it’s way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stay rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” – Bruce Lee
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“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
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“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking about dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.” – Bruce Lee
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“To me, the extraordinary aspect of marital arts lies in it’s 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
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“Man, the living creature, the creating individual is always more important than any established style or system.” – Bruce Lee
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“A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.” – Bruce Lee
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“The possession of anything begins in the mind.” – Bruce Lee
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“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” – Bruce Lee
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“Linda and I aren’t one and one. We are two halves that make a whole, two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone.” – Bruce Lee
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“If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying.” – Bruce Lee
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“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, and end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” – Bruce Lee
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“Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.” – Bruce Lee
Conclusion
So there it is my friends, Bruce lee quotes about life, love and of course water! Let me know what your favorite ones are and if you have any good ones to add that I missed! Much love my friends, and remember to be like water.
Chris
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