Chinese-American Quotes

65 quotes in this collection

"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."

-- Bruce Lee

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

-- Bruce Lee

"Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own."

-- Bruce Lee

"Be happy, but never satisfied."

-- 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

"The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation."

-- Bruce Lee

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."

-- Bruce Lee

"Art is the expression of the soul."

-- Bruce Lee

"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

-- Bruce Lee

"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."

-- Bruce Lee

"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."

-- Bruce Lee

"Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

-- Bruce Lee

"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome; one should not be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat."

-- Bruce Lee

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

-- Bruce Lee

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

-- Bruce Lee

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."

-- 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."

-- Bruce Lee

"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."

-- Bruce Lee

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

-- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water."

-- Bruce Lee

"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominant thought patterns."

-- Bruce Lee

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

-- Bruce Lee

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

-- Bruce Lee

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

-- Bruce Lee
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