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Best 119 Quotes by Bruce Lee – Page 2 of 4

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.”

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”

“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”

“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!”

“I always believe that the easy way is the right way.”

“I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”

“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized.”

“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.”

“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.”

“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”

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

“If I tell you I’m good, you would probably think I’m boasting. If I tell you I’m no good, you know I’m lying.”

“If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

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“If you always put limits 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. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

“If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.”

“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”

“It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.”

“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.”

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

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