Bruce Lee quote translation

[SayajiN]

Hello everyone,so i'm thinking to get a tattoo (Bruce Lee quote): "As you think, so shall you become" ,but i want it to be translated back to Chinese,the problem is that i can't find how it looks in Chinese,can you guys help me translate this quote?

[somethingfunny]

This?

 

p.s. don't do it

[roddy]

Are you sure you're translating it *back* to Chinese? Did he originally say it in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, what?

[Lu]

From somethingfunny's link:

As you think, so shall you become. 你想成为什么样的人，就真的为成为那样的人。

That certainly looks like it's translated from an originally English quote.

[skylee]

There is a similar Chinese saying 有諸內，形諸外. I don't know if Bruce Lee ever said it, but he was definitely not where this saying came from.

[skylee]

Another similar Chinese saying is 相由心生.

[Demonic_Duck]

From somethingfunny's link:

As you think, so shall you become. 你想成为什么样的人，就真的为成为那样的人。

That certainly looks like it's translated from an originally English quote.

Doesn't even look like correct Chinese to me. Shouldn't “为” be “会”? Also, it looks distinctly Mandarin, which seems unlikely for a Bruce Lee quote.

 

Translating something "back to" Chinese is a bad idea. Even if both the first and second translations were very good (and that's a big if), you'll almost certainly end up with something different from the original quote