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Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 9

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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Motivational, Struggle, Views

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

Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life, Time, Mean

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

Art, Essence, Way

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

Determination, Real, Fighting

"The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Spiritual, Simplicity, Spirituality

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.227, Tuttle Publishing

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Inspirational, Lying, Boast

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

Two, Numbers, Realizing

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.54, Tuttle Publishing

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Mind, Conditioning, Day To Day

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

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Should, Conceptualization, Concepts

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.

Opposites, Void, Realizing

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

Powerful, Important, Should

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.337, Tuttle Publishing

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.

Memories, Lying, Past

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Thinking, Spirit, Determined

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.76, Tuttle Publishing

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Running, Simplicity, Design

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Life Is Too Short, Accomplishment, Energy

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

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.

Heart, Listening, Mind

Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.204, Tuttle Publishing

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

Real, Abdomen, Source

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.80, Tuttle Publishing

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Inspiring, Running, Humor

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Flow, Life Is, Process

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.6, Tuttle Publishing

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.

Inspirational, If There Is A God, Giving

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

Teacher, Use, Way

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

Morning, Writing, Blank Mind

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Art, Enlightenment, Liberty

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

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Fighting, Mma, Use

"Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit". Book by Bruce Thomas, p. 44, 1994.

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