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"59 Bruce Lee Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 November 1940. Died: 20 July 1973 | Actor | Film director | Martial artist |
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Know Must Will Apply
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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Key First Life Worth
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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.

Fear Man Once Kick
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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Spend Time Goal Move
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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

Love Fire Flame Light
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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.
Live World Mine This
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Always Yourself Look Duplicate
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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.

Positive Choice Master Attitude
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If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
Within Thing Depend Theme
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Obey Being Bound Them
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Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Your Cup Empty Devoid
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Realize Catastrophy Between Know
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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.

Want Swim Jump Water
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The moment is freedom. I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Moment Freedom Rigid Happen
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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Easy Break Spirit Lifetime
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Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Right Wrong Better Against
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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.

Spend Manner Waste Forever
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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Less Effort More Fast
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Life Your State Constant
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Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Life Never Thing Move
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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.

Wish Long Covet Myself
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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.

Doubt Fly Final Glow
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Compare Cease Peace Live
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Life Battle Strong Fast
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Notice Tree Crack Bend
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Take Punch Kick Have
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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.

Dedicate Concept Between Image
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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Use Work Take Place
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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Relax State Level Student
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When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Reach Form Water Style
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
What Determine Become Think
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Aspect Easy Special Waste
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction

Knowledge Skill Float Empty
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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.

Fear Better Great Know
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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Set Form Adapt Grow
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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Tense Ready Dream Aware
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Mistake Outcome Victory Nature
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Those Seek Light Walk
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Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing

Time Because Learn Forever
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of
Love Life Waste Time
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Pray Easy Life Endure
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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

State Mind Defeat Reality
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Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Never Which Begin End
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Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory

Finger Away Moon Glory
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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action

Self Great Proper Action
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Bruce Lee Quotes & Sayings