Quotes By Author: Bruce Lee
“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.”
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“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. 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.”
“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
“The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.”
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“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.”
“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.”