Bruce Lee bukanlah seorang Amerika, dia adalah orang China. Dia seorang aktor, ahli beladiri, penulis cerita, produser film, dan pendiri konsep beladiri Jet Kune Do, banyak yang menganggap Bruce Lee sangat mempengaruhi perkembangan dunia beladiri di Abad ke 20, dia juga menjadi sebuah icon Budaya. Bruce Lee memiliki 2 orang anak yaitu aktor Brandon Lee dan aktris Shannon Lee.

Bruce Lee terkenal dalam 5 (lima) filmnya yaitu Lo Wei, The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972), Way of The Dragon (1972) yang ditulis dan diproduseri sendiri, kemudian dia bermain di film Enter The Dragon (1973) dan The Game of Death (1978). Berikut beberapa kata filosofis dari sepanjang kehidupan Bruce Lee.

- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
- A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- As you think, so shall you become.
- Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
- To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
- I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
- If you always put limit 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.
- If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
- If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
- It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
- 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.
- Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
- Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily kracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Real living is living for others.
- Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
- Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
- Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
- The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead – big possibilities.
- Like the song says, “We’ve just begun.”
- The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
- To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.


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