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I leave you the best Bruce Lee quotes about fear, philosophical, life and much more. Lee was an American actor, martial arts expert, and writer of Chinese origin, considered the greatest martial artist of the 20th century.
He participated in films such as The Dragon's Fury, Karate to the Death in Bangkok, The Orphan or Operation Dragon. He also published the book Chinese Gung Fu, the Phylosophical Art of Self-defense. All this before his death at the age of 32 in 1973. You may also be interested in these phrases about karate, these about discipline or these about the gym.
-To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
-Don't pray for a simple life, pray for the strength to resist a difficult life.
-Note that the stiffer tree is easier to crack, while the bamboo or willow tree survives by bending in the wind.
-Defeat is not defeat unless it is accepted as reality in your own mind.
-Knowledge will give you power; respect character.
-Don't fear failure. Crime is not failure, but aiming low. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
-The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
-Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically yours.
-Faith makes it possible to achieve what the mind of man can conceive and believe.
-Be aware of yourself, instead of being a repetitive robot.
-The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.
-What you usually think determines to a large extent what you will become.
-The change is from the inside to the outside. We begin by dissolving our attitude, not altering external conditions.
-The possession of anything begins in the mind.
-The key to immortality is to first live a life worth remembering.
-A good teacher protects his students from his own influence.
-Be happy, but never be satisfied.
-True life consists of living for others.
-We all have time to take advantage or to lose and it is our decision what we do with it. But keep in mind that once passed, it never recovers.
-Do not have any path as a path, nor have any limitation as a limitation.
-I know water, my friend.
-Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
-Don't allow negative thoughts to enter your mind, because they are the herbs that strangle confidence.
-I am not afraid of the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, I fear the man who has practiced a kick 10,000 times.
-The battles of life are not always for the strongest or fastest man. However, sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
-Choose the positive. You have the choice, you are the master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is the faith that guides you to success.
-If you love life, don't waste time, because time is what life is made of.
-I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
-As you think you will become.
-Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, don't go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
-Balance your thoughts with actions. If you spend too much time thinking about something, you never will.
-Those who do not know that they are walking in the dark will never seek the light.
-Preparing for tomorrow is working hard today.
-The success of my greatest films is because I was being Bruce Lee. Not a character.
-Make at least one movement daily towards your goal.
-Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
-It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Chase the nonessential.
-The key to immortality is to live a life worth remembering.
-It is easy to criticize and break the spirit of others, but knowing yourself takes a lifetime.
-Accept things as they are. Hit when you have to hit. Kick when you have to kick.
- To show off is the idea about the glory of the fool.
-Don't stay in a single shape, adapt it, build yours, and let it grow, be like water.
-My style is the art of fighting without fighting.
-You have to find a good balance in movement and not in stillness.
-All types of knowledge, ultimately, mean self-knowledge.
-The concentration is the root of all the capacities of the man.
-The negative mental chatter stops. If you think something is impossible, you will make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to be successful.
-Knowing yourself is studying yourself in action with another person.
-Empty your mind, be amorphous, moldable, like water. If you put water in a cup it becomes the cup. If you put water in a bottle it becomes the bottle. If you put it in a kettle it becomes the kettle. The water can flow or hit. Be water my friend.
-Investigate in your own experiences, to get to understand what works for you.
-One must be in harmony with the force and not in opposition to it.
-Thoughts are things.
-Knowledge depends on time, while knowledge does not. Knowledge is a source of accumulation, of conclusion, while knowledge is a continuous movement.
-The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
-A goal is not always something to achieve, often it simply serves as something to aim for.
-Empty your cup so it can be filled; stay with nothing to gain the whole.
-The training does not deal with an object, but with the human spirit and human emotions.
-Life is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
-Life is wide, without limits. There are no borders, there are no borders.
-If you love, you don't need to have an ideology of love.
-Use only what works, and take it from anywhere you can find it.
-Reality becomes evident when we stop comparing.
-The truth is the relationship with the opposite; constantly in motion, alive, never static.
-A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
-Tactics are the brain work of combat.
-Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith can be achieved.
-I try to live in the moment, letting things happen and adapting to them.
-The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominant habits of thought.
-Every day I hide a new revelation or a new discovery that I can obtain.
-Expecting life to treat you well for being a good person is like hoping that a tiger does not attack you for being a vegetarian.
-It is compassion rather than the principle of justice that can prevent us from being unfair to our fellow men.
-When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I don't hit; the blow is given by itself.
-Obey the principles without being bound by them.
-The man, the living being, the creative individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
-At the center of difficulties lies opportunity.
-Like a cobra, your blow should be felt rather than seen.
-If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or otherwise, it will spread through your work and through your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you have to be there, you have to go beyond them.
- Showing off is a silly way to get glory.
-The conscience is given without choice, without pretense, without anxiety.
-Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, movement without rhythm, because we constantly change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they do so.
-For me an action movie is action, you have to keep the dialogue in the background.
-My old Mandarin films do not meet my quality standards, but I must say that little by little they are climbing until they reach that standard that I call quality.
-In the beginning it was not my intention that the martial art that I practiced and that I still practice would lead me to this.
-Martial arts have a very, very deep meaning; at least as far as my life is concerned.
-As an actor, as a human being, and as a martial artist; all those aspects of me have grown thanks to martial arts.
-Now we talk a lot about sport, but when we talk about real combat, as it really is; you better train every part of your body.
-When you hit you must use all of you, not only your body but all your energy and thus turn your fist into a weapon.
-For me, martial arts means expressing yourself.
-It is not difficult to learn to speak Chinese. The difficult thing is knowing how to correctly express the meaning behind those words.
-The words superstar lowers my spirits, the expression "star man" is an illusion.
-I admit that I have been very successful but I don't see myself as a superstar. I'd rather be recognized a thousand times for being a super actor or a great martial artist.
-Knowledge is not enough, we must apply it. It is not enough to want, you have to do it.
-Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowledge without beginning or end.
-Fixed patterns are unable to adapt. The truth is outside the fixed patterns.
-Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent rub your skin and crush you against her flesh… Don't worry about escaping safely.
-Since I was a child, I had an urgent need for growth and expansion. For me, the role and duty of every human being is the sincere and honest development of one's own potential.
-For a moment the environment does not make any sound. Time is up. The paradise of dreams becomes reality.
-For me, the most extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts are nothing special at all.
-You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese star in this world.
-The less you try, the faster and more powerful you will be.
-When there is the freedom of mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classic man is simply a package of routine, ideas and tradition.
-If you stick to the classic pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow, but you are not understanding yourself.
-If I say I'm good… I brag. And if I say that I am not good… then you would realize that I am lying.
-I'm not teaching anything, I'm just helping you to know yourself.
-There is no challenge in breaking a wood. Wood cannot be defended.
-I have always been a martial artist by decision, an actor by profession, but above all I am an artist of life.
-Love is like a friendship on fire. At first it is a very pretty flame, it is often hot and fierce, but at the end it is just a flickering light.
-As love ages, our hearts mature and our hearts turn to hot coal.
-A tantrum will make you look like a fool.
-Simplicity is the last step of art.
-A teacher never gives the truth. She is a guide, she is the one who points out the truth that each student must find for herself. A good teacher is simply a catalyst.
-If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must leave behind the notions learned in schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, among others.
-Your mind will leave all conflicts behind and rest. In silence, you will see clearly and freshly.
-Unfortunately, most martial arts students are conformists. The student rarely depends on himself to express himself.
-The student blindly follows an instructor, an authority figure, and the instructor-imposed pattern. In this way, the student feels that he is not alone and finds security by following the masses.
-Don't think, feel. It is like a finger pointing to the Moon, do not focus on the finger or you will miss the glory of the sky.
-Look for your own experience.
-Art after all is a means of acquiring personal freedom. Your shape is not mine and my shape is not yours.
-The styles tend to separate men because they have their own doctrines, and the doctrine becomes the gospel that you cannot change.
-My experience can help, but I insist and maintain that art, true art, cannot be delivered.
-Art can never be considered a decoration or something to beautify. Instead, art should be considered a constant process of maturity.
-Learning is a constant process of discovery that never ends.
-I feel that I have this great spiritual and creative force within me, which is greater than destiny, which is greater than ambition, which is greater than determination, which is greater than vision. It's all of that combined.
-Whether or not God is guiding me, I feel that this great force, this great power or this dynamic thing is within me.
-When a man realizes the great spiritual forces within him and begins to use them for science, business, and in life, his progress in the future will be incomparable.
-The unbelievers said: "man cannot fly"; the creators said, “maybe not, but we will try” and finally dissipated in the morning glow, as the disbelievers watched from below.
-I want to be the catalyst of a new era for China, not on a large political scale or anything like that; but to show the world that many things are different. Be the catalyst for understanding Chinese culture.
-Martial arts are all those forms of combat around the world; some of them have become more of a sport, but the true martial art is one that focuses on hand-to-hand combat.
-All kinds of knowledge currently implies self-knowledge; people come to me not so much to teach them how to defend themselves from external dangers, but to get to know themselves better and to be able to overcome themselves. Win that internal fight.
-On one side is the human instinct and on the other the self-control; you must learn to combine the two in harmony. If you have one at the extreme, you will be a very rational man, if you have the other at the extreme, then you will be a mechanical man. You must combine both in harmony.
-Life is better lived than conceptualized.
-If you don't want to slip tomorrow, tell the truth today.
-An angry temperament will deceive you soon.
-I don't teach Karate because I don't believe in styles anymore. I don't believe in the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way. Unless men had three arms and four legs, there could be different forms of combat.
- If forty years ago a Chinese had thought that he was going to play a spy in an American movie, that would have been a vague and poor dream; Now things are different.
-I don't want to sound like Confucius or anybody like that, I want people to recognize me for being the man that I am.
-Under heaven there is only one big family, and I like to see that people accept that we are all different, but that they like to be different.
-I share the same thinking as my predecessors; that philosophy is the love of wisdom.