Wise Words By Bruce Lee - Quotes

• 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 successfull 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 cracked, 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.

Wise Words - Muhammad Ali Quotes

• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
• A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.
• Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
• At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.
• Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
• Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
• I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
• I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
• I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
• I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
• I hated every minute of training, but I said, ”Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
• I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
• I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
• I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
• I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
• I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.
• I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
• I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.
• If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
• It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
• It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.
• It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
• It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
• It’s not bragging if you can back it up.
• It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
• My toughest fight was with my first wife.
• My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
• No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
• Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
• Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
• Superman don’t need no seat belt.
• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
• There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
• There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
• To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
• Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
• We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
• What keeps me going is goals.
• When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Remarkable Philosophy

• Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of  me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just leave  me alone.
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and  a leaky tire.
• It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
• Don’t be irreplaceable; if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
• No one is listening until you make a mistake.
• Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.
• Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a  warning to others.
• It is far more impressive when others discover your good  qualities without your help.
• If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.
• If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.
•  If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• Don’t squat with your spurs on.
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
• Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
• Good judgment comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes  from bad judgment
• The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and  put it back in your pocket.
• Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
• A closed mouth gathers no foot.  
• Duct tape is like the force: it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
• There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.  
• Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your mouth is moving.
• Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Smart Quotes

1. I’m a nobody, nobody is perfect, and therefore I’m perfect.
2. I’ve got to sit down and work out where I stand.
3. If I save time, when do I get it back?
4. Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
5. I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
6. Take my advice, I don’t use it anyway.

Funny Quotes by Old Men - Wisdom of the Elderly

1. Whether a man winds up with a nest egg, or a goose egg, depends a lot on the kind of chick he marries.
2. Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earnin’ his salt that he forgets his sugar.
3. Too many couples marry for better, or for worse, but not for good.
4. When a man marries a woman, they become one; but the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
5. If a man has enough horse sense to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will never turn into an old nag.
6. A foolish husband says to his wife, “Honey, you stick to the washin’, ironin’, cookin’ and scrubbin’. No wife of mine is gonna work.”
7. The bonds of matrimony are a good investment only when the interest is kept up.
8. Many girls like to marry a military man he can cook, sew, and make beds and is in good health, and he’s already used to taking orders.
9. Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way.
10. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
11. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
12. When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth…. Remember about Algebra.
13. You know you are getting old, when everything ……….
14. I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
15. One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.
16. Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
17. Old age is when former classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don’t recognize you.
18. If you don’t learn to laugh when you are young, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you are old.
19. Hang in there and keep on Laughing