Zitate von Bruce Lee

„Bete nicht für ein einfaches Leben, bete für die Stärke, ein schweres Leben zu ertragen.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Ich habe keine Angst vor dem Mann, der 10.000 Kicks einmal geübt hat, aber ich fürchte mich vor dem, der einen Kick 10.000 mal geübt hat.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Was IST ist wichtiger als was sein SOLLTE. Es gibt zu viele Menschen, die “das, was ist” aus einer Perspektive des “was sein sollte” sehen … Umstände? Zur Hölle mit den Umständen. Ich erschaffe Möglichkeiten.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Wenn Du Dir immer Grenzen setzt, sei es im Training oder sonstwo, wird es sich auf andere Bereiche, auf Deine Arbeit, Dein Leben ausweiten. Es gibt keine Grenzen. Es gibt nur Plaeaus. Und Du darfst dort nicht bleiben, Du musst sie durchbrechen.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Fehler sind immer zu verzeihen, wenn man den Mut hat, diese auch zuzugeben.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Nimm an, was nützlich ist. Lass weg, was unnütz ist. Und füge das hinzu, was dein Eigenes ist.“

—  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

„Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one“

—  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

„There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing.“

—  Bruce Lee

p. 131
Kontext: There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

„Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.“

—  Bruce Lee

Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 25; Variant: Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose — to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
As quoted in Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000)
Kontext: Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat — to learn to die — is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

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

—  Bruce Lee

„Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is.“

—  Bruce Lee

p. 156
Kontext: Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the “self” vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.

„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

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

—  Bruce Lee

„Be happy, but never satisfied.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.“

—  Bruce Lee

„Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.“

—  Bruce Lee

Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
Quelle: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

„Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.“

—  Bruce Lee

Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43