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
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
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
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
There are too many stars and too few actors.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
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
To tolerate is to insult.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
What can you take from me which is not already yours?
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee
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
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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
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
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
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
BRUCE LEE
Enter the Dragon
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Walk on.
BRUCE LEE
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee