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Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 3

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If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Insult, Ass, Ifs

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Practice, Long, Perfect

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

Simplicity, Chaos, Harmony

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

Attitude, Dissolving, Conditions

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Patterns, Martial Arts, Truth Is

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing

Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Pain, Leaving, Weakness

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

Attitude, Champion, Good Man

Bruce Lee, M. Uyehara (1977). “Bruce Lee's Fighting Method: Advanced Techniques”, p.122, Black Belt Communications

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Principles, Martial Arts, Martial Artist

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.121, Tuttle Publishing

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Order, Ideas, Water

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Dedication, Absolutes

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.219, Tuttle Publishing

As you think, you shall become

Thinking, Endurance

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Distance, Lying, Past

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Motivational, Powerful, Men

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.92, Tuttle Publishing

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Time, Moving, Echoes

"Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 13), 2000.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

Inspirational, Ideas, Water

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

Journey, Reaching, Destination

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Understanding, Perception, Inquiry

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.186, Tuttle Publishing

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

Art, Movement, Martial Arts

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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.

Love, Life, Friendship

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

Yesterday, Flow, Gains

Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

Want, Remember, Immortal

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Art, Temporary Defeat, Sith

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.363, Tuttle Publishing

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