Here are top 10 Bruce Lee quotes to get your motivation up and to reach the next level of your personal journey. We all want to live a meaningful life and to achieve greatness during our lifetime. And what better way is there than to learn from those who did?

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

We all want to be on the safe side. Before we act we want to make sure things will work out well and thus we spend hours upon hours considering our decisions. Yet as Bruce Lee rightfully put - if we spend too much time thinking, eventually we will end up nowhere.

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

Somewhere inside we all want an easy life of comfort. Yet not only such a life is rarely possible, it would not even be good for us, since we learn most things through hardship. Living an entirely easy life, we would end up learning nothing and waste our whole potential. Thus to paraphrase Bruce Lee: “Do not want an easy life, do your best living a difficult one”.

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

As you strive to live a life full of meaning and greatness, being open to challenge - you will fail - probably more often than those who don’t try at all. As Bruce Lee points out - making mistakes is not a problem, as long as you have the courage to admit them.

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

This quote could describe the whole life of Bruce Lee. Being never satisfied with imperfection he always strived for more, thus finding answers and solutions most of us never would. The question here is: are we easily satisfied with our results?

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

Sometimes we give an excuse to ourselves of “who are we to achieve anything”, yet as Bruce Lee points out: the one who is successful is not the one who is special, but a regular person who can devote himself completely to a single goal. This is the secret to greatness.

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

Often times being better or stronger is not enough. It is the mind which drives our body and results. If we do not believe in our success, how can we expect to succeed at all?

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.”

One of the most famous phrases of Bruce Lee and not without a good reason. Too often we practice and believe things which actually are not effective, yet without questioning them we end up repeating many times something that does not give true value. It is of greatest importance to question what we do, only keeping the best solutions while discovering our own unique answers to it as well, since…

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

Life is short. It’s actually for many much shorter than we think of. We all plan on living for a hundred years, yet as Bruce Lee’s life showed us - life can be much shorter than we expected. If we really want to live a life of meaning and greatness, we have to appreciate each moment and let it not go to waist.

“Real living is living for others.”

This could be considered one of the greatest things that Bruce Lee discovered. By living for ourselves we can commit only to mediocre goals and thus expect mediocre success, and little meaning in our lives. Yet it is by living for others that we make our lives matter and only in this way, we can create something that will be truly meaningful. Bruce Lee was a great example of this.