Quotes from Bruce Lee
True refinement seeks simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
- Bruce Lee
Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.
- Bruce Lee
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
- Bruce Lee
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
- Bruce Lee
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
- Bruce Lee
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
- Bruce Lee
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
- Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Bruce Lee
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
- Bruce Lee
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
- Bruce Lee
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.
- Bruce Lee