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A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes

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Build up virtue, and you master all.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

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Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Life, Motion, Enlightenment




"Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Appreciation, Success, Happiness, Fame, Integrity, Failure, Money, Fulfillment, Happy




He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes

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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Appreciation, Life




Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Power, Win




Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Flexibility, Death, Life




The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Famous Quotes on: Action, Just Do It




What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception




When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, People




When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes




Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Self-Development Quotes on: Tao Te Ching, Great




The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes from Tao Te Ching

Famous Quotes on: Tao Te Ching, The Way, Victory, Achieve, Skill




To see things in the seed, that is genius.

~ Lao-tzu Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Genius






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