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Bruce Lee

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Bruce Lee clearly understood the power of language. The range of their thinking — from Life to Time — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 21 of Bruce Lee's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Life, Time, Power, Love, and Learning. As Bruce Lee put it: "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

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

— Bruce Lee

Life

All Quotes by 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

Fear

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

— Bruce Lee

Truth

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

— Bruce Lee

Faith

“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

Friendship

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

— Bruce Lee

Life

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

— Bruce Lee

Courage

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

— Bruce Lee

Learning

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

Time

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

— Bruce Lee

Power

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

— Bruce Lee

Life

“If you always put limit 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.”

— Bruce Lee

Life

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

— Bruce Lee

Learning

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

— Bruce Lee

Knowledge