Quotes By Lao Tzu

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Nature is not human hearted.

To lead people walk behind them.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Silence is a source of great strength.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

From caring comes courage.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.