Lao Tzu Quotes

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself,people can see his light.Because he has nothing to prove,people can trust his words.Because he doesn't know who he is,people recognize themselves in him.Because he has no goal in mind,everything he does succeeds.

~ Lao Tzu

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

~ Lao Tzu

Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.The slow overcomes the fast.The weak overcomes the strong.…Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,and the soft overcomes the hard.Yet no one applies this knowledge.

~ Lao Tzu

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.

~ Lao Tzu

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

~ Lao Tzu

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

~ Lao Tzu

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.

~ Lao Tzu

Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.

~ Lao Tzu

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

~ Lao Tzu

The way to do is to be.

~ Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

~ Lao Tzu

To lead the people walk behind them.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

~ Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

~ Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

~ Lao Tzu

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

~ Lao Tzu

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

~ Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

~ Lao Tzu

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

~ Lao Tzu

Nature is not human hearted.

~ Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.

~ Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

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

~ Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

~ Lao Tzu

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Lao Tzu

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

~ Lao Tzu

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

~ Lao Tzu

Be the chief but never the lord.

~ Lao Tzu

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

~ Lao Tzu

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

~ Lao Tzu