Inspirational Bruce Lee quotes

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

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
- Bruce Lee

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
- Bruce Lee

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
- Bruce Lee

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted by reality.
- 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

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
- Bruce Lee

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.
- Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
- Bruce Lee

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

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.
- Bruce Lee

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

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
- Bruce Lee

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

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

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

Obey the principles without being bound by them.
- Bruce Lee

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

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
- Bruce Lee

I’m moving and not moving at all. I’m like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, “I am doing this,” but rather, an inner realization that “this is happening through me,” or “it is doing this for me.” The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
- Bruce Lee

Be Water, My Friend.Empty your mind.Be formless, shapeless, like water.You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.Now water can flow or it can crash.Be water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee

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

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
- Bruce Lee

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

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
- Bruce Lee

Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.
- Bruce Lee

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world
- 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

More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself – and that’s about it.
- Bruce Lee

Be happy, but never satisfied.
- Bruce Lee

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.
- Bruce Lee

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.
- Bruce Lee

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

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