Quotes by Bruce Lee


Be happy, but never satisfied.
– Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
– Bruce Lee
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
– Bruce Lee
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
– Bruce Lee
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
– Bruce Lee
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
– Bruce Lee
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
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
– Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
– Bruce Lee
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
– Bruce Lee
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
– Bruce Lee
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
– Bruce Lee
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
– Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
– Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
– Bruce Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
– Bruce Lee
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– Bruce Lee
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
– Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
– Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
– Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
– Bruce Lee