Selected Quotes By Lao Tzu
"Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise."
Lao Tzu, Wealth, Arrogance
"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
Lao Tzu, Problems
"Take care with the end as you do with the beginning."
Lao Tzu, Planning
"Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness, Problems
"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
Lao Tzu, Life
"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
Lao Tzu, Life
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."
Lao Tzu, Life
"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness
"To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."
Lao Tzu, Intelligence/Wisdom
"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."
Lao Tzu, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
Lao Tzu, Courage
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
Lao Tzu, Courage
"The best fighter is never angry."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
Lao Tzu, Truth
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
Lao Tzu, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
Lao Tzu, Intelligence/Wisdom, Strength, Power
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."