Lao-Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao.

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao-Tzu - Tao Te Ching
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,
The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
To be worn out is to be renewed.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.

Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
Lao-Tzu - Tao te Ching
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao-Tzu - The Way of Lao-tzu
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

- Lao-Tzu