Quote

To lead, one must follow.

Laozi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Follow
Leadership
Must
Lead

More quotes by Laozi

Image
Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.
Laozi
Image
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Laozi
Image
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
Laozi
Image
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Laozi
Image
Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling he sees without looking he works without doing.
Laozi
Image
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
Laozi
Image
Battles are followed by years of famine.
Laozi
Image
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.
Laozi
Image
The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.
Laozi
Image
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Laozi
Image
Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.
Laozi
Image
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
Laozi
Image
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi
Image
The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.
Laozi
Image
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
Laozi
Image
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
Laozi
Image
All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
Laozi
Image
. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.
Laozi
Image
Requite injury with kindness.
Laozi
Image
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
Laozi