Laozi Quotes - Page 28

• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Done, Deeds

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• Stillness overcomes heat.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Overcoming, Heat

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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• Going on means going far, going far means returning.

  Laozi

  Travel, Mean

  Laozi, Burton Watson, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (1993). “Dao de Jing”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

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  Vanity, Taoism, Way

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• Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

  Laozi

  Circles, People, Justice

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• The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

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  Clothes, Taoism, Sage

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• If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

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  Tree, Lightning, Concerned

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• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

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  Taoism, Extravagance, Excess

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• Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

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  Honesty, Confusion, Taoism

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• Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

  Laozi

  Perspective, Treats

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• Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

  Laozi

  Dust, Earth, Unions

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
  Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
  Great fullness seems empty,
  Yet it cannot be exhausted.

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  Accomplishment, Perfection, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

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  Kindness, Work, Ideas

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• Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

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  Giving, Credit, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Achievement, Stills

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.45, Jain Publishing Company

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• People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

  Laozi

  Children, Eye, Compassion

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• Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

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  Difficult And Easy, Voice, Long

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

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  Dark, Compassion, Knowing

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• When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

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  Creative, Taoism, Fluidity

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• The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their backs to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

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  Hate, Men, Two

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• If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, People, Justice

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

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  Animal, Awareness, Conscious

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• Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

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  Roots, Giving, Birth

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• Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

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  Wise, Believe, Heart

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• People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

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  Fighting, Economic Inequality, People

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