Bruce Lee Quotes

The attitude, “You can win if you want to badly enough,” means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too “tough” to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner’s ideals and dreams.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

If you truly love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being

Don't neglect life by worrying about Death. - I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward [with life]. Even though, I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits.