25+ Power Packed Bruce Lee Quotes

Lee Jun-fan, or more popularly known as Bruce Lee, no wonder he is a legend for a reason. Here are powerful Bruce Lee quotes that are packed with wisdom and lessons of life.

Bruce Lee brought martial arts to the mainstream cinema, boasting a level of skills that only a few can match. This legend was a philosopher, martial art expert, film-maker and an actor. His up notch skills not only made him a popular name in the 20th century but, his films are still watched and his name remembered, even today. He continues to inspire many athletes, bodybuilders, sports enthusiasts and even average men to adopt his approach to training and way of living life.

Here are 25 powerful Bruce Lee quotes that are packed with wisdom and lessons of life.

 1) “As you think, so shall you become.”

Bruce Lee

2) “As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

3) “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

Bruce Lee

4) “If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

5) “Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

6) “All knowledge ultimately means Self-knowledge.”

Bruce Lee

7) “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

8) “Be happy, but never satisfied.”

Bruce Lee quotes

9) “Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

10) “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

defeat

11) “You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”

continue to suffer

12) “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

13) “One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm.”

Bruce Lee quotes

14) “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

15) “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

16) “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

Bruce Lee quotes

17) “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

18) “Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — there is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.”

19) “If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

20) “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

21) “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

If You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About A Thing

22) “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

23) “The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.”

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

Bruce Lee quotes

25) “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”

26) “Empty your mind be formless, shapeless like water. if you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle and it became the bottle. You put in a teapot and it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

Bruce Lee quotes

27) “A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, “I” do not hit, “it” hits all by itself.”

28) “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

Bruce Lee quotes

29) “Real living is living for others.”

30) “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

31) “The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it. Until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”

medicine

32) “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

33) “Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.”

Bruce Lee quotes

34) “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”

35) “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

quick temper

36) “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

37) “Don’t pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

Bruce Lee

38) “If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

39) “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.”

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Lee Jun-fan, or more popularly known as Bruce Lee, no wonder he is a legend for a reason. Here are powerful Bruce Lee quotes that are packed with wisdom and lessons of life.

Bruce Lee brought martial arts to the mainstream cinema, boasting a level of skills that only a few can match. This legend was a philosopher, martial art expert, film-maker and an actor. His up notch skills not only made him a popular name in the 20th century but, his films are still watched and his name remembered, even today. He continues to inspire many athletes, bodybuilders, sports enthusiasts and even average men to adopt his approach to training and way of living life.

Here are 25 powerful Bruce Lee quotes that are packed with wisdom and lessons of life.

 1) “As you think, so shall you become.”

Bruce Lee

2) “As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

3) “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

Bruce Lee

4) “If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

5) “Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

6) “All knowledge ultimately means Self-knowledge.”

Bruce Lee

7) “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

8) “Be happy, but never satisfied.”

Bruce Lee quotes

9) “Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

10) “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

defeat

11) “You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”

continue to suffer

12) “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

13) “One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm.”

Bruce Lee quotes

14) “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

15) “Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

16) “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

Bruce Lee quotes

17) “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

18) “Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — there is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.”

19) “If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

20) “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

21) “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

If You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About A Thing

22) “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

23) “The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.”

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

Bruce Lee quotes

25) “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”

26) “Empty your mind be formless, shapeless like water. if you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle and it became the bottle. You put in a teapot and it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

Bruce Lee quotes

27) “A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, “I” do not hit, “it” hits all by itself.”

28) “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

Bruce Lee quotes

29) “Real living is living for others.”

30) “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

31) “The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it. Until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”

medicine

32) “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

33) “Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.”

Bruce Lee quotes

34) “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”

35) “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

quick temper

36) “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

37) “Don’t pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

Bruce Lee

38) “If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

39) “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.”

Would you like to add more Brucle Lee Quotes?

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Bruce Lee quotes
bruce lee Pin

Published On:

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Helen

Hi there! I am someone who if given the option can read books all day, without even sleeping. I love binging on TV shows, with Game of Thrones being my favorite (duh!). Apart from that, I am passionate about writing and can write anytime and anywhere.

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