Home / Quotes / Quote by Bruce Lee

Quote by Bruce Lee

“A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.”

Quote by Bruce Lee

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Work

Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts is a collection of Bruce Lee's profound reflections on life, philosophy, and self-improvement. The book delves into his approach to martial arts, personal growth, and the principles that guided his life. It offers readers a glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential martial artists and thinkers of the 20th century, providing wisdom for daily living and personal development. more

Author

Bruce Lee was a Chinese-American martial artist, film actor, philosopher, and founder of Jeet Kune Do. He is considered one of the most influential martial artists of all time and is known for his innovative approach to martial arts and his philosophy of using what works best for the individual. Lee's films, such as 'Enter the Dragon' and 'Fist of Fury', have become iconic and have had a lasting impact on the martial arts genre. more

You May Also Like

“Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.”

Contact Inventory

Book:Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way

Source: Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way

“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”

Mind Taken Conscious Strive Absence Divides Completeness Indivisible Conscious Mind

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.”

Mind Looks Care Lying Realizing Memories Consciousness Gone Movement Fields Bondage

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.”

May School Memories Rooms Fire Minutes Color Unique All Things Burning Flash Smallest Globes Spinning Flare

Author:Delmore Schwartz

“Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.”

Ifs Mind Made Self Light Voice White Knowing Bed All Things Green Ease Warmth Sunlight Affectionate

Book:Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

“Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.”

World Years Mind Whole Light Faces Dark Clear Grace Drink Standing Accidents Whole World Sufficient

Book:Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

Years Littles Youth Train Speed

Book:Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958

Source: Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958

“The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.”

Men Running Mass Concern Entrepreneur Managers Typical Shareholders Sly

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson

“It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.”

Ifs Trying Process Impossible Economic Development Understood Historical Rational Awkward Phases Schemes Continuing Economic Systems

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson

“No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel”

Matter No Matter What Leafs Laurels Withered Withered Leaves

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson