The most famous Bruce Lee quotes
The top 3 according to 224 votes from people: Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend. · Don't think, feel. It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. · Boards don't hit back.. (Updated May 31, 2018.)
"Be water, my friend", "Don't think, feel" and "Boards don't hit back": Bruce Lee's best-known lines, with the film, interview or book they come from.
Top 11
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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
Lines he wrote for the TV series Longstreet (1971).
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2
Don't think, feel. It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon.
Enter the Dragon (1973).
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Boards don't hit back.
Enter the Dragon (1973), to O'Hara.
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Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.'
The Warrior Within (1996), p. 48.
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5
All types of knowledge ultimately mean self-knowledge.
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview, with Pierre Berton (1971).
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6
There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
The Art of Expressing the Human Body (1998).
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Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation.
Motto of Jeet Kune Do, in The Warrior Within (1996).
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Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 176.
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Neither. I think of myself as a human being.
When asked whether he saw himself as Chinese or American; The Warrior Within (1996), p. 87.
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I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
Jeet Kune Do (1997), part 6.
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11
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Quoted in Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit (1994).
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