Frases de Bruce Lee

“La clave para la inmortalidad es principalmente vivir una vida que valga la pena recordar.”

“Si crees que algo es imposible, tú lo harás imposible.”

“Yo no temo al hombre que ha lanzado 10,000 patadas diferentes, yo temo al hombre que ha lanzado una misma patada 10,000 veces.”

“Los errores son siempre perdonables, si se tiene la valentía de admitirlos.”

“¿Sabes cómo pienso en mí mismo? Como un ser humano. Porque, quiero decir que no quiero ser como “lo que Confucio dice”, pero bajo el cielo, bajo el cielo no hay sino una familia. Lo que pasa es que las personas son diferentes.”

“Cuando hay libertad del condicionamiento mecánico, hay simplicidad. El hombre clásico es justo un paquete de rutina, de ideas y de tradición. Si sigues el patrón clásico, estás entendiendo la rutina, la tradición, la sombra - no te estás entendiendo.”

“Las batallas de la vida no siempre van al hombre más fuerte o más rápido, pero tarde o temprano el hombre que gana es el hombre que piensa que puede.”

“Sé agua, amigo mío.”

“Al infierno con las circunstancias. Creo oportunidades.”

“Cuando el oponente se expande, yo me contraigo. Cuando él se contrae, yo me expando. Y cuando hay una oportunidad, yo no golpeo; el golpe se da por sí mismo.”

“La fe es un estado mental que puede ser condicionado a través de la auto-disciplina. La fe se puede lograr.”

“Si digo que soy bueno… alardeo. Y si digo que no soy bueno… entonces sabrías que estoy mintiendo.”

“Si amas la vida, no pierdas el tiempo, de tiempo está hecha la vida.”

“Investiga en tus propias experiencias, para llegar a entender qué funciona para ti.”

“Lucirse es una forma tonta de obtener gloria.”

“En el caos busca la simplicidad y en la discordia la armonía.”

“Yo no te estoy enseñando nada, solo te ayudo a que te conozcas a ti mismo.”

“Las herramientas, tus armas naturales, tienen un doble propósito:
1.- Destruir a tu rival frente a ti, el aniquilamiento de cosas que están en el camino de la paz, en el de la justicia y la humanidad.
2.- Destruir tus propios impulsos resultantes del instinto de conservación. Destruir cualquier cosa que moleste a tu mente. No para hacer daño a alguien, sino para vencer tu propia codicia, ira y locura. El Jeet Kune Do está dirigido hacia uno mismo.”

“Mi estilo, es el arte de luchar sin luchar.”

“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.”