Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Laozi
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Seize
Taoism
Fail
Failing
Lose
Loses
More quotes by Laozi
If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
Laozi
Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
Laozi
A good speaker does not stutter.
Laozi
The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
Laozi
The unyielding army will not win.
Laozi
The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.
Laozi
The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.
Laozi
The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.
Laozi
Peace and quiet govern the world.
Laozi
Those who stand on their toes are not steady.
Laozi
There is no illusion great than fear.
Laozi
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
Laozi
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
Laozi
The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.
Laozi
Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?
Laozi
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
Laozi
Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
Laozi
Silence is a source of great strenght.
Laozi
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
Laozi
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
Laozi
