Bruce Lee

Martial artist, actor, philosopher

Modern influential 84 sayings

Sayings by Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, 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.

1971 — Interview with Pierre Berton
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

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

1971 — Interview with Pierre Berton
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Under the sky, under the heavens, there is but one family.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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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.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

A good teacher can never be a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that the student must discover for himself.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The greatest mistake is to be continually fearing that you will make one.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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Real living is living for others.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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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.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The spirit of the individual is determined by his actions and attitudes.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
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Be happy, but never satisfied.

1960s-1970s — From a letter or personal notes
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable