BRUCE LEE QUOTES II

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.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Tags: pessimism


Possession of anything begins in the mind.

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Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Tags: possessions


Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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To tolerate is to insult.

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Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

Tags: tolerance


There are too many stars and too few actors.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Tags: actors


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

Tags: love


Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

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The Tao of Gung Fu

Tags: martial arts


All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

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Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, 1971

Tags: knowledge


What can you take from me which is not already yours?

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The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee


Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

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Tao of Jeet Kune Do


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


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.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Tags: life


Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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Bruce Lee: Artist of Life


Never take your eyes off your opponent ... even when you're bowing!

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Enter the Dragon


Walk on.

BRUCE LEE

The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee

Tags: perseverance


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


Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

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Tao of Jeet Kune Do


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

Tags: thinking