"21 Famous Inspirational and Motivational Quotes - Bruce Lee"

Bruce Lee was a famous Martial Actor born in San Francisco, U.S., on 27 November 1940. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawn from different combat disciplines. His parents, Lee Hoi-Chuen(father) and Grace Ho(mother) were of Chinese origin. Bruce Lee was raised in Hong Kong for eight years. His father introduced him to the Hong Kong Industry as a child actor. In 1959 Lee got U.S. Citizenship due to his birth in San Francisco. Then he moved to Seattle. In 1961 he was enrolled in the university of Washington for further education, but he used to make money in the college by teaching martial arts to the students. After that, he opened his first martial school in Seattle. He opened the second school of martial arts in Oakland, California. The time after the 1970s was a life-changing year for him. He influenced people. He worked in various hit movies like Enter the Dragon, directed by Warner Brothers, and The Game of Death, directed by Robert Clause. This was the time when he became an iconic figure throughout the world. In 1972, he worked on his fourth film, Game of Death. After the completion of the film Game of Death, Warner Bros offered him to do a movie that was a game-changing event of his life, which was Enter the Dragon. It was one of the best movies of his carrier.

However, only a few months after the completion of Enter the Dragon, and six days before its July 26, 1973, release, Lee died. Enter the Dragon would become one of the year's highest-grossing films and cement Lee as a martial arts legend. Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, was created by Bruce Lee. It is a mixed martial art form that originated from various other disciplines. " In 2004, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) founder Dana White called Lee the "father of mixed martial arts" and stated: "If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every discipline, use what works, and throw the rest away". Bruce Lee was honored with various prestigious awards, such as:

1.  The Special Jury Award for Fist of Fury in 1972. 
2. Hong Kong Film Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1994. 
3. 100 most influential people of the 20th Century in 1999. 
4. Star of the century Award in 2004.
5. The Asian Awards in 2013.
6. Statue of Bruce Lee in Los Angeles, 2013.

Here are some Inspirational Quotes from Bruce Lee:

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

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

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

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

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

6.   “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.”

7.   “Be happy, but never satisfied.”

8.  “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”

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

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

11.  “If you always put limits 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.”

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

13.  “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

14.  “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

15.  “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

16.  “If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

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

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

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

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

21.  “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”