Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee is one of my greatest inspirations. Last night while bored on StumbleUpon, I came across this webpage of quotes by, you guessed it, Bruce Lee! I've never seen such a great collection of quotes before so I'm going post some of my favourite's below!

Be happy, but never satisfied.
— Bruce Lee

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
— Bruce Lee

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
— Bruce Lee

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. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
— 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

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.
— Bruce Lee

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

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

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

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
— Bruce Lee

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
— Bruce Lee

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.
— Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
— Bruce Lee

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