Following are popular Bruce Lee quotes and sayings. We’ve compiled a list of top 70 Bruce Lee quotes on life, success and happiness.

70 Greatest Bruce Lee Quotes

1. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

2. “Be happy, but never satisfied.”

3. “Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”

4. “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.”

5. “It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”

6. “What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”

7. “Don’t pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

8. “Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”

9. “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.”

10. “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”

11. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

12. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

13. “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

14. “The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

15. “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.”

16. “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

17. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

18. “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

19. “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”

20. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

21. “The doubters said, ‘Man can not fly,’ The doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ And finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.”

22. “Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

23. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

24. “As you think, so shall you become.”

25. “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.”

26. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”

27. “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.”

28. “If you always put limits 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.”

29. “The possession of anything begins in the mind.”

30. “Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

31. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

32. “Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”

33. “It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.”

34. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

35. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

36. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”

37. “If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

38. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

39. “Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”

40. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

41. “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

42. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

43. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

44. “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.”

45. “Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”

46. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

47. “The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.”

48. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

49. “To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”

50. “The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.”

51. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

52. “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.”

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

54. “Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.”

55. “Real living is living for others.”

56. “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.”

57. “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

58. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”

59. “Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”

60. “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.”

61. “Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.”

62. “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”

63. “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

64. “Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him.”

65. “Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

66. “Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

67. “Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”

68. “Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

69. “There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”

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