51 Inspiring Bruce Lee Quotes To Be Successful In Life

Utkarsh Malhotra

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Known for his unique Lighting Quick fighting style, Bruce Lee's strength knows no bounds when it comes to Martial Arts.

But apart from being an expert in martial arts and fighting stuff. Bruce Lee was an amazing actor, director, and a philosopher who loves to share his teachings to help others in their lives.

Bruce Lee lived a simple yet inspirational life. Sadly, He died at the young age of 32 but even after his death.

His teachings and wisdom would continue to live on and inspire us for generations to come.

Today we will share with you these top 21 most powerful Bruce Lee Quotes that will completely change the way you think about your life.

Now, What are you waiting for? Let's take a peek in the mind of the legend, shall We?

Top 51 Bruce Lee Quotes

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.
Bruce Lee

Be Water, My Friend

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
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.
Bruce Lee
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee

Do not fear problems, But overcome them

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
Be happy, but never satisfied.
Bruce Lee
In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.
Bruce Lee
Emotion can be the enemy, if you give in to your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions because the body always follows the mind.
Bruce Lee
I'm not in this world to live up to yourexpectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee

Createopportunities.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning
Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer
Bruce Lee
Knowing is not enough…we must apply. Willing is not enough…we must do
Bruce Lee
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind
Bruce Lee

Defeat is only in your mind

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better
Bruce Lee
No state, good or bad, is a constant in your life. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
Anyone with a year of boxing and wrestling could beat a 20-year martial artist
Bruce Lee
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own
Bruce Lee

Absord What is useful

People with quick tempers will jump to conclusions and sometimes they may be right, but they look foolish when they're wrong. Learn to stay calm within yourself and give people the time to explain themselves and then make your opinion known.
Bruce Lee
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Bruce Lee
long term consistency trumps short-term intensity
Bruce Lee
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail
Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells, that's why it's called spelling
Bruce Lee

Your goal is not in your hand

Don't think, feel! It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory
Bruce Lee
It's better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war
Bruce Lee
You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme
Bruce Lee
To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do
Bruce Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect
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 becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done
Bruce Lee

Do > Think

Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation
Bruce Lee
Never regret being a good person to the wrong people
Bruce Lee
Don't neglect life by worrying about Death. – I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die – and I go on, non-stop, going forward. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die someday without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.
Bruce Lee
Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.
Bruce Lee

Be Limitless

Under The Sky, Under The Heavens, There Is But One Family.
Bruce Lee
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. I am not teaching you anything, I just help you to explore yourself
Bruce Lee
Faith without work is death
Bruce Lee
Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. 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. A man must constantly exceed his level.
Bruce Lee
Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Bruce Lee
The relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.
Bruce Lee

Learn From Everyone,Follow No one

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it
Bruce Lee
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature
Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the key to brilliance
Bruce Lee
Never allow yourself to fall victim to a victim mentality. You are in control of your life, period. No matter what situation you may find yourself in, maintain control over yourself and your mind.
Bruce Lee
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality
Bruce Lee
Zen is not attained by mirror-wiping meditation, but by self-forgetfulness in the existential present of life here and now. We do not "come", we "are" Don't strive to become, but be
Bruce Lee
When you find yourself in a room surrounded by your enemies you should tell yourself 'I am not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me. ' This is the kind of mindset you should have if you want to succeed in life. Get rid of that victim mentality
Bruce Lee
I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks. I fear the man who practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee

Power of FOCUS

Conclusion Quotes

Now, We have covered all the top 51 Bruce Lee Quotes for you.

I hope these quotes will bring some positive changes to your life

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