107 quotes
The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire — soon it will go out.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000)
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit (1994)
What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at "what is" from a position of thinking "what should be."
Striking Thoughts (2000)
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
In Science we have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no "things."
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Life is better lived than conceptualized.
Striking Thoughts (2000)
Because I will conquer death with death.
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)