“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.”
―
Bruce Lee
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity
―
Bruce Lee
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
―
Bruce Lee
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
―
Bruce Lee
“When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
―
Bruce Lee
“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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”
―
Bruce Lee
“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
―
Bruce Lee
