ᐅ169+ Best Bruce Lee Quotes ("Be Like Water, My Friend")

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

"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." ~ Bruce Lee

"Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude." ~ Bruce Lee

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." ~ Bruce Lee

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" ~ Bruce Lee

"Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine." ~ Bruce Lee

"Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity." ~ Bruce Lee

"In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others." ~ Bruce Lee

"When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible." ~ Bruce Lee

"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

"Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat." ~ Bruce Lee

"In the middle of chaos lies opportunity." ~ Bruce Lee

"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind." ~ 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

"‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." ~ Bruce Lee

"If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?" ~ Bruce Lee

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." ~ Bruce Lee

"Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday." ~ Bruce Lee

"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning." ~ Bruce Lee

"Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed." ~ Bruce Lee

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

"Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success." ~ Bruce Lee

"The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow." ~ Bruce Lee

"Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate." ~ Bruce Lee

"Knowing is not enough, You must apply" ~ Bruce Lee

"Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light." ~ Bruce Lee

"The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions." ~ Bruce Lee

"Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty." ~ Bruce Lee

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." ~ Bruce Lee

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." ~ Bruce Lee

"Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you." ~ Bruce Lee

"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing." ~ Bruce Lee

"When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive." ~ Bruce Lee

"Pain is weakness leaving your body." ~ Bruce Lee

"Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone." ~ Bruce Lee