Top 28 Most Inspiring Bruce Lee Quotes to Inspire Life and Greatness

Bruce Lee was a famous martial artist, movie star and cultural icon but his philosophy has caught fire around the world with a new generation seeking meaning and consciousness.

He continues to teach us how to cultivate our truest selves and be in harmony with the world. Following are popular Bruce Lee quotes and sayings.

Bruce Lee Quotes

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

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
– Bruce Lee

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
– 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

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
– Bruce Lee

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
– Bruce Lee

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
– 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

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.
– Bruce Lee

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
– Bruce Lee

If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
– Bruce Lee

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
– Bruce Lee

If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.
– Bruce Lee

 

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

I’m not a master, I’m a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I’m still learning, So I’m a student-master. I don’t believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.
– Bruce Lee

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
– Bruce Lee

Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
– Bruce Lee

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.
– Bruce Lee

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

Posession of anything begins in the mind.
– Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others.
– Bruce Lee

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
– Bruce Lee

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

To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.
– Bruce Lee

To me, the function and duty of a quality human is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
– Bruce Lee

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.
– Bruce Lee