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39 Famous Bruce Lee Quotes To Inspire Your Journey
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Sean Gagne
- September 3, 2020
Today, I watched one of my favorite movies, Enter The Dragon, and decided to collect some famous Bruce Lee quotes. While I was reading these quotes, I never realized how powerful and inspirational Bruce Lee was. Lee’s wisdom and philosophical ideas can easily motivate you and, if applied in your daily life, can help you control anger, fear, anxiety, and help you find TRUE inner peace.
With that being said, please enjoy these famous Bruce Lee quotes and I hope that you can find what you’re looking for while on your life journey!
39 Famous Bruce Lee Quotes
2. “Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
3. “Living exists when life lives through us – unhampered in its flow, for he who is living is not conscious of living and, in this, is the life it lives.” – Bruce Lee
5. “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.” – Bruce Lee
6. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee
8. “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 its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.” – Bruce Lee
9. “Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!” – Bruce Lee
11. “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image” – Bruce Lee
12. “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.” – Bruce Lee
14. “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.” – Bruce Lee
15. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.” – Bruce Lee
17. “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
18. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own” – Bruce Lee
20. “If you think a thing is impossible,you’ll only make it impossible.” – Bruce Lee
21. “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
23. “It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.” – Bruce Lee
24. “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.” – Bruce Lee
26. “Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” – Bruce Lee
27. “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
28. “Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.” – Bruce Lee
29. “Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.” – Bruce Lee
31. “Intensity and/or enthusiasm is this god within us – one that instinctively becomes the art of the physical “becoming” and within this transition we no longer care to know what life means. We are indeed furnishing the “what is” by simply being.” – Bruce Lee
32. “The more we understand, the greater and deeper will be our contact with all that is around us.” – Bruce Lee
33. “Don’t be in a hurry to “fix” things; rather, enrich your understanding in the ever-going process of discovery and finding more the cause of your ignorance.” – Bruce Lee
34. “The waters are in motion all the time, but the moon retains its serenity. The mind moves in response to the ten thousand situations but remains ever the same.” – Bruce Lee
36. “The point to be made about ego is that man should use his ego and not be used by ego or blinded by it.” – Bruce Lee
37. “When there is a particle of dust in your eye, the world becomes a narrow path – have your mind completely free from objects – and how much this life expands.” – Bruce Lee
38. “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
39. “Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and life running water, when it stops it grows stale.” – Bruce Lee
Sean Gagne
I am just a normal guy who loves philosophy and wants to share his love with the rest of the world. If you'd like to know more, check out my about me!
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