“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
EfficiencyMartial Arts
Bruce Lee Quotes
American - Martial Artist & Actor|November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973
50 FAMOUS QUOTES · MARTIAL ARTIST & ACTOR
Bruce Lee Quotes
Read 50 of the best Bruce Lee quotes on self-belief, discipline, adaptability and limits, including "Be water, my friend," from the legendary martial artist and actor.
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
Bruce Lee
IndividualityCreativity
“The extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way.”
Bruce Lee
SimplicityMartial Arts
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
Bruce Lee
PracticalityLearning
“All types of knowledge ultimately mean self-knowledge.”
Bruce Lee
Self KnowledgeWisdom
“To accept defeat, to learn to die, is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize.”
Bruce Lee
AcceptanceFreedom
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese star in the world.”
Bruce Lee
AmbitionSelf Belief
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
Bruce Lee
Open MindLearning
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.”
Bruce Lee
LearningIndividuality
“Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation.”
Bruce Lee
Jeet Kune DoFreedom
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee
StrengthResilience
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”
Bruce Lee
SimplicityShort Quotes
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
Bruce Lee
MindsetPerseverance
“Don't think. Feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon.”
Bruce Lee
IntuitionEnter The Dragon
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”
Bruce Lee
LearningLife
“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
Bruce Lee
GrowthShort Quotes
“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
ActionExperience
“In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.”
Bruce Lee
PassionJourney
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive.”
Bruce Lee
PositivityAttitude
“Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.”
Bruce Lee
Letting GoPatience
“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
Meaning Of LifeFreedom
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
Bruce Lee
TeachingTruth
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.”
Bruce Lee
PatienceStrength
“I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental superstar in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor.”
Bruce Lee
GoalsDefinite Chief Aim
“We should devote ourselves to being self-actualizing, not self-image actualizing.”
Bruce Lee
AuthenticityGrowth