10 Famous Bruce Lee Quotes

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Bruce Lee‘s legend will live on forever. He was a Chinese martial artist, philosopher and film maker. He was also the founder of Jeet Kune Do, his own form of formless Kung Fu. As an inspiration to millions around the world, we certainly get a boost of motivation whenever we consider his great legacy. Without further ado, here are 10 of our favorite Bruce Lee quotes.

    1. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
    2. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
    3. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
    4. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
    5. “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
    6. “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.”
    7. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into 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.”
    8. “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.”
    9. “If you always put limit 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.”
    10. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”