Bruce Lee citáty

„Chyby sú vždy odpustiteľné, keď má daná osoba odvahu ich priznať.“

„Nemodlite sa pre ľahší život, modlite sa pre silu, vďaka ktorej vydržíte ťažký život.“

„Cieľ nemá byť vždy dosiahnutý, často slúži iba na to, aby sme mali na čo zamieriť.“

„Berte veci tak, ako sú. Udrite, keď musíte udrieť. Kopnite, keď musíte kopnúť.“

„Ak milujete život, neplytvajte časom, pretože čas je to, z čoho sa život skladá.“

„Vedomosti nestačia, musíme ich aplikovať. Nestačí chcieť, musíme konať.“

„Dobrý učiteľ chráni žiakov aj pred svojim vlastným vplyvom.“

„Hocijaká technika, nech je akákoľvek vzácna a žiadaná, sa stáva chorobou, ak je ňou posadnutá myseľ.“

„Láska je ako priateľstvo, ktoré horí. Spočiatku je iba ako plameň, veľmi pekná, často horúca a divoká, ale stále iba slabá a blikajúca. A ako láska starne a naše srdcia dozrievajú, je ako uhlie, hlboko horiaca a neuhasiteľná.“

„Buďte šťastní, ale nikdy spokojní.“

„Neboj sa zlyhania. Nie zlyhanie, ale nízky cieľ, je trestný čin. Pri veľkých pokusoch je slávne aj zlyhanie.“

„Vyvážte svoje myšlienky činmi. Ak strávite príliš veľa času premýšľaním nad nejakou vecou, nikdy ju nespravíte.“

„Čím menej sa namáhate, tým budete rýchlejší a výkonnejší.“

„K čertu s okolnosťami, ja vytváram príležitosti.“

„Prispôsobte sa užitočnému, odmietnite zbytočné a pridajte niečo, čo je len vaše.“

„Všimnite si, že najtuhší strom sa najľahšie zlomí, zatiaľ čo bambus alebo vŕba prežijú vďaka ohýbaniu vetrom.“

„Ako myslíš, takým sa staneš.“

„Vždy buďte sami sebou, vyjadrite sa, verte si, nehľadajte úspešnú osobnosť, ktorú by ste odkopírovali.“

„Ak stále vymedzuješ a chlievikuješ všetko, čo robíš – či už fyzicky alebo nejako inak – rozšíri sa to do tvojej práce a do tvojho života. Niet obmedzení. Sú len úrovne a na tých nesmieš zostať, musíš sa snažiť dostať ďalej a vyššie.“

„Spoznať seba samého znamená skúmať seba samého pri jednaní s druhou osobou.“

„Nerozmýšľajte o tom, kto má pravdu, kto sa mýli alebo kto je lepší. Nebuďte za ani proti.“

„Žiadne pevne stanovené vzory nie sú schopné prispôsobivosti alebo ohybnosti. Pravda sa nachádza mimo nich.“

„Prípravou na zajtrajšok je tvrdá práca už dnes.“

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

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

“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.”

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

“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”

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

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

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

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

“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.”

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

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

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

“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.”

“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”

“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”

“Of course you’re there. Death is always there. So why was I afraid? Your leap is swift. Your claws are sharp and merciful. What can you take from me which is not already yours?... Everything I have done until now has been fruitless. It has led to nothing. There was no other path except that it led to nothing — and before me now there is only one real fact — Death. The truth I have been seeking — this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So — we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.”

“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

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

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

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

“Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.”