Lao Tzu Quotes

• As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish – that is, don’t turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Advice

• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Greed, Choice, Choosing

• If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Persistence

• The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Liberals, Poverty

• The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Effort, Service

  Tags in Simplicity

• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuition, Security, Understanding

• The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one’s center.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Actors And Acting

• A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Confidence, Fear

  Tags in Strength, Courage

Lao Tzu (131)

Birth:	400 BC
Death:	531 BC
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

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