Bruce Lee Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

As you think, so shall you become.

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.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

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.

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

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

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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

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

Real living is living for others.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

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

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

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, "We've just begun."

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Trivia

Lee studied with different masters of classical martial arts forms, but became dissatisfied with them. He took the best of all of those arts, combined his own ideas and created his own style called Jun Fan Gung Fu, a modification of Wing Chun combined with western boxing and fencing. This would later lead to his own refined school of the martial arts: Jeet Kune Do.

Though his martial arts philosophy was controversial, Lee is widely considered to be the greatest martial arts film actor of the 20th century.

Bruce had two sisters and two brothers.

One of Bruce's legs was almost a whole inch longer than the other, causing pain from the misalignment of his spine, which he had to overcome through weight training and conditioning.

Lee's first fame came as a child star in many Hong Kong movies. He was six years old when he did his first film The Orphan.

In the film Tang Shan Da Xiong, a brutal fight scene, which had Bruce slicing a man's head open with a saw, had to be edited to avoid an X rating.

Bruce weighed only 128 pounds at the time of his death, due in part to the extreme workout routine he had created for himself.

Bruce suffered a serious back injury while weight training, attempting a heavy dead lift. He used his recuperation time to write several books on his views and ideas about the martial arts.

The Bosnian city of Mostar erected a bronze statue in honor of Lee November 26, 2005.

A theme park based on the life of Bruce Lee, complete with a statue and memorial hall, will be constructed at the action star's southern ancestral home of Shunde, China.

He starred in Qian wan ren jia (1953).

A bronze statue of Bruce Lee was unveiled in Hong Kong to mark his 65th birthday. Special guests included his brother Robert Lee.