Bruce Lee Quotes & Sayings

“Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

“Be self-aware, not a repetitious robot.”

“We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”

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

“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject; he chisels away the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”

“Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.”

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, yin and yang, heaven and earth are conceived as one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”

“I personally do not believe in the word 'style.' Unless there are humans with three arms and four legs, or a group that is structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.”

“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

“There are lots of guys around the world who are lazy. They have big, fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but they don't believe it.”

“I don’t believe in different ways of fighting. Unless humans had three arms and three legs, we’d fight differently. We all have two arms and two legs, so the only way of fighting should be no way.”

“Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”

“Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.”

“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking, not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

“I did what I came here to do. What I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.”

“The moment is freedom. I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.”

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”

“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.”

“Art requires imagination. It requires creativity. Creativity requires experience, and experience comes from your life. Your life is expressed in your art.”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.”

“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”

“The past is an illusion. Live in the present and accept yourself as you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility, make up with knowledge and relentless practice.”