Hong Kong American martial artist & actor (1940-1973)
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
Possession of anything begins in the mind.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
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
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
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
BRUCE LEE
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, 1971
There are too many stars and too few actors.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
What can you take from me which is not already yours?
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee
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
Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
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
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
BRUCE LEE
Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Never take your eyes off your opponent ... even when you're bowing!
BRUCE LEE
Enter the Dragon
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.
BRUCE LEE
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, 1971
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
If a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee