Hong Kong American martial artist & actor (1940-1973)
Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
There are too many stars and too few actors.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
To tolerate is to insult.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
BRUCE LEE
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, 1971
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
attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
BRUCE LEE
Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
What can you take from me which is not already yours?
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Walk on.
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.
BRUCE LEE
The Tao of Gung Fu
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Possession of anything begins in the mind.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee