por Bruce Lee (1940-1973) was an American martial arts master and artist, actor, filmmaker, philosopher and writer of Hong Kong origin. He is considered by connoisseurs as the most influential martial artist of all time, spread thanks to his numerous films.
He created his own philosophical method of life and combat, called Jun Fan Gung Fu, which would eventually become Jeet Kune Do (“way of the intercepting fist”). His films were so innovative and influential that they marked the taste in the West for martial arts, generating a wave of followers around the world.
Next, we leave a list with the Bruce Lee’s best quotes about fear, philosophy, life and much more. He was a pop culture icon in the 20th century, and starred in movies as The fury of the dragon, Karate to the death in Bangkok, The Orphan or Operation Dragon.
Bruce Lee’s best quotes
-To hell with the circumstances; I create opportunities.
-Don’t pray for a simple life, pray for the strength to resist a difficult life.
-Note that the most rigid tree is easier to crack, while bamboo or willow survive by bending in the wind.
-Defeat is not defeat unless it is accepted as a reality in your own mind.
-Knowledge will give you power; character, respect
Don’t be afraid of failure. The crime is not failure, but aiming low. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
-The successful warrior is the average man, with focus similar to a laser.
-Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically yours.
-Faith makes it possible to achieve what the mind of man can conceive and believe.
-Be aware of yourself, instead of being a repetitive robot.
-The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.
What you habitually think largely determines what you will become.
-The change is from the inside to the outside. We begin by dissolving our attitude, not by altering external conditions.
-The possession of anything begins in the mind.
-The key to immortality is to first live a life worth remembering.
-A good teacher protects his students from his own influence.
-Be happy, but never be satisfied.
-True life consists of living for others.
-We all have time to take advantage of or to lose and it is our decision what we do with it. But keep in mind that once past, he never recovers.
-Do not have any path as a path, nor have any limitation as a limitation.
-I know water, my friend.
-Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
-Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind, because they are the herbs that strangle confidence.
I am not afraid of the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, I am afraid of the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
-The battles of life are not always for the strongest or fastest man. However, sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
-Choose the positive. You have the choice, you are the master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is the faith that guides success.
-If you love life, don’t waste time, because time is what life is made up of.
-I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
How do you think you will become?
-Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, don’t go out and find a successful personality and duplicate it.
-Balance your thoughts with actions. If you spend too much time thinking about something, you’ll never get it done.
-Those who do not know that they are walking in the dark will never seek the light.
-Preparing for tomorrow is working hard today.
-The success of my greatest films is due to the fact that I was being Bruce Lee. Not a character.
-Make at least one movement daily towards your goal.
-Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
-It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Put aside the non-essentials.
-If there is a God, it is within us.
-It is easy to criticize and break the spirit of others, but knowing yourself takes a lifetime.
-Accept things as they are. Hit when you have to hit. Kick when you have to kick.
-Bragging is the idea about the glory of the fool.
-Don’t stay in one way, adapt it, build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
-My style is the art of fighting without fighting.
-You have to find a good balance in movement and not in stillness.
-All types of knowledge ultimately mean self-knowledge.
-Concentration is the root of all human abilities.
-Stop negative mental chatter. If you think something is impossible, you will make it impossible. Pessimism dulls the tools you need to succeed.
-To know yourself is to study yourself in action with another person.
-Empty your mind, be amorphous, moldable, like water. If you put water in a cup it becomes the cup. If you put water in a bottle it becomes the bottle. If you put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. The water can flow or hit. Be water, my friend.
-Research your own experiences, to get to understand what works for you.
-One must be in harmony with the force and not in opposition to it.
-Thoughts are things.
-Knowledge depends on time, while knowledge does not. Knowledge is a source of accumulation, of conclusion, while knowledge is a continuous movement.
-The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
-A goal is not always something to achieve, it often serves simply as something to aim for.
-Empty your cup so that it can be filled; stay with nothing to gain the whole.
-The training does not deal with an object, but with the human spirit and human emotions.
-Life is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
-Life is wide, without limits. There are no borders, there are no borders.
-If one loves, one does not need to have an ideology of love.
-Use only what works, and grab it from anywhere you can find.
-Reality becomes evident when we stop comparing.
-The truth is the relationship with the opposite; constantly in motion, alive, never static.
-A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
-Tactics are the brain work of combat.
-Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith can be achieved.
-I try to live in the moment, letting things happen and adapting to them.
-The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominant habits of thought.
-Every day I hide a new revelation or a new discovery that I can obtain.
-Expecting that life treats you well for being a good person, is like hoping that a tiger does not attack you for being a vegetarian.
-It is compassion rather than the principle of justice that can prevent us from being unfair to our fellow men.
-When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I don’t hit; the blow is given by itself.
-Obeys the principles without being bound by them.
-Man, the living being, the creative individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
-In the center of the difficulties lies the opportunity.
-Like a cobra, your blow must be felt before seen.
-If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or otherwise, it will spread through your work and through your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you have to be there, you have to go beyond them.
-Showing off is a silly way to get glory.
-Consciousness is given without choice, without pretension, without anxiety.
-Life is never stagnant. It is constant movement, movement without rhythm, because we change constantly. Things live by moving and gain strength as they do so.
-For me an action movie is action, you have to keep the dialogue in the background.
-My old Mandarin movies don’t meet my quality standards, but I must say that little by little they are climbing up to that standard that I call quality.
-In the beginning it was not my intention that the martial art that I practiced and that I still practice would lead me to this.
-Martial arts have a very, very deep meaning; at least as far as my life is concerned.
-As an actor, as a human being, and as a martial artist, all those aspects of me have grown thanks to martial arts.
-Now there is a lot of talk about sport, but when we talk about true combat, as it really is, you better train every part of your body.
-When you hit you must use all of yourself, not only your body but all your energy, and thus turn your fist into a weapon.
-For me, martial arts means expressing yourself.
-It is not difficult to learn to speak Chinese. The difficult part is knowing how to correctly express the meaning behind those words.
-The word superstar lowers my spirits, the expression «star man» is an illusion.
-I admit that I have been very successful but I do not see myself as a superstar. I would prefer a thousand times to be recognized for being a super actor or a great martial artist.
-Knowledge is not enough, we must apply it. It is not enough to want, you have to do it.
-Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowledge without beginning or end.
-Fixed patterns are unable to adapt. The truth is outside of fixed patterns.
-Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent brush your skin and crush you against his flesh… Don’t worry about escaping safely.
-Since I was a child, I had an urgent need for growth and expansion. For me, the role and duty of every human being is the sincere and honest development of their own potential.
-For a moment the environment does not make any sound. Time ends. The paradise of dreams comes true.
-For me, the most extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and there is nothing special about martial arts at all.
-You just wait. I am going to be the biggest Chinese star in this world.
-The less effort you make, the faster and more powerful you will be.
-When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classic man is simply a bundle of routine, ideas, and tradition.
-If you stay in the classic pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow, but you are not understanding yourself.
-If I say I’m good… I brag. And if I say I’m no good…then you’d know I’m lying.
-I’m not teaching anything, I’m just helping you to know yourself.
-There is no challenge in breaking a wood. Wood cannot be defended.
-I have always been a martial artist by decision, an actor by profession, but above all I am an artist of life.
-Love is like a friendship on fire. At first, she’s a very pretty llama, she’s often hot and fierce, but at…