
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (Martial artist and actor, 1940 – 1973). Below are 31 quotes by Bruce Lee from QuotePlace, each as a beautiful quote card.
Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor who transformed martial-arts cinema with films such as Enter the Dragon. His philosophy of adaptability — 'be water' — blended Taoist ideas with his own Jeet Kune Do.
1.Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.
2.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.
3.Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
4.If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
5.A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
6.Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
7.Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
8.Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
9.Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
10.Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
11.To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
12.As you think, so shall you become.
13.If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
14.All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
15.The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
16.To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
17.Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
18.There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
19.Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
20.If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.
21.A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.
22.Real living is living for others.
23.Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
24.The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
25.Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
26.Be happy, but never satisfied.
27.Obey the principles without being bound by them.
28.Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
29.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.
30.Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
31.The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.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
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.Bruce Lee
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.Bruce Lee
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.Bruce Lee
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.Bruce Lee
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.Bruce Lee

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

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.Bruce Lee

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

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.Bruce Lee

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

Real living is living for others.Bruce Lee

Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.Bruce Lee

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.Bruce Lee

Be happy, but never satisfied.Bruce Lee

Obey the principles without being bound by them.Bruce Lee

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.Bruce Lee

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