Quotes by Bruce Lee

“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 becom...”

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“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 th...”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

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

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

“The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.”

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will dis...”

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought process...”

“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.”

“Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.”

“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.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”

“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”

“Real living is living for others.”

“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”