Bruce Lee

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If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Inspirational
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Either push your limits or die.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Limits
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To tolerate is to insult.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Tolerance
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Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Humility
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If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Light
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Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Inventory
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The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Moving
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To change with change is the changeless state
- Bruce Lee
Collection: States
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Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Mean
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Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Thinking
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There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Passion
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I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Lying
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Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Powerful
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Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Men
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In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Technique
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If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Want
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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Philosophical
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Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Morning
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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Warrior
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One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Simple
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In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Real
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I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Memories
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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 processes and even ordinary thought itself.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Old Habits
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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.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Motivational
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You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Opportunity
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Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Cobras
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Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Motivational
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With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Adversity
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One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Inspiring
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It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Heart
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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Believe
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Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Motivational
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A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Teacher
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Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Self
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We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Light
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Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Should
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Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Exercise
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Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Mind
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If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Want
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True refinement seeks simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Spiritual
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: About Strength
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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Focus
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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Self Improvement
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Inspirational
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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 the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Learning
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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.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: About Strength
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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Mind
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I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Karma
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Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Ideas