Quotes by Bruce Lee

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

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

Dont fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Real living is living for others.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.

Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.