Bruce Lee was a martial artist, film director, producer, screenwriter, philosopher and actor. Bruce Lee is widely considered to be one of the most influential martial artists of the last century. Up to this day he is considered as a legend and his philosophy continues to live through the martial art that he created Jeet Kune Do and through his writing.
Here are the top 35 most inspiring Bruce Lee quotes to help you combat self-doubt:
1. "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."
2. "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
3. "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
4. "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
5. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own."
6. "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
7. "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
8. "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."
9. "Real living is living for others."
10. "The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."
11. "If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
12. "Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory."
13. "Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can."
14. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
15. "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
16. "In the middle of chaos lies opportunity."
17. "For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."
18. "Be happy, but never satisfied."
19. "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
20. "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
21. "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
22. "Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
23. "Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light."
24. "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."
25. "Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end."
26. "Simplicity is the key to brilliance."
27. "As you think, so shall you become."
28. "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it become the cup. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
29. "Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."
30. "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 out love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
31. "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
32. "Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better."
33. "Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
34. "It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
35. "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
36. "What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become."
Bonus Quote:
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.
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