Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 8

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• Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

  Bruce Lee

  Optimism, Martial Arts, Martial Arts Inspirational

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

  Bruce Lee

  Winning, Opponents, Sun

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• Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

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  Motivational, Struggle, Views

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

  Bruce Lee

  Happiness, Self, Games

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• Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

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  Heart, Listening, Mind

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.204, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

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  Exercise, Mind, Needs

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• Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

  Bruce Lee

  Effort, Minimum, Maximum

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• Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Perception, Rewards

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.78, Tuttle Publishing

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• Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

  Bruce Lee

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• Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

  Bruce Lee

  Fighting, Mma, Use

  "Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit". Book by Bruce Thomas, p. 44, 1994.

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• Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Flow, Moments, Openness

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 13, 2000.

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• The possession of anything begins in the mind.

  Bruce Lee

  Mind, Possession

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.371, Tuttle Publishing

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• Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

  Bruce Lee

  Flow, Becoming, Moments

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Believe, Order

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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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

  Opportunity, Luck, Advantage

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.125, Tuttle Publishing

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• In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

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  Motivational, Powerful, Order

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

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• To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

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  Decision, Forever, Gone

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

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  Dream, Thinking, Mma

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• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

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  Swimming, Land, Water

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• A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

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  Chance, Fighter, Strikes

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• Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

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  Should, Conceptualization, Concepts

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• True refinement seeks simplicity.

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  Spiritual, Simplicity, Spirituality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.227, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

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  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

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  Memories, Lying, Past

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