Tao Te Ching Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.  The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.  The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

  Laozi

  Self, People, Subsidies

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• ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Saints And Sinners

  Laozi (2016). “The Tao Te Ching: Annotated Edition”, p.97, Dudeism LLC

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• When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

  Laozi

  Men, Tao, Disaster

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The truth often sounds paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Truth, Sound, Paradoxical

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Heart, Practice

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• He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

  Laozi

  Friendship, Men, Honor

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

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

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

  Laozi

  Badass, Greatness, Simplicity

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Flames

  "Tao Te Ching". 4th century BC.

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• The more laws and restrictions there are,
  The poorer people become.
  The sharper men's weapons,
  The more trouble in the land.

  Laozi

  Law, People, Liberty

  "Tao te ching".

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

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

  Laozi

  Learning, Taoism, Pursuit

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

  Laozi

  Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching

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• Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

  Laozi

  Life, Gentle, Disciple

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Used

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• In caring for others and serving heaven,
  There is nothing like using restraint.

  Laozi

  Caring, Heaven, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

  Laozi

  Gains, Losing, Loses

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  Laozi

  War, Taoism, Violence

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• Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Taoism, Trying

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• Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Dangerous, Tao Ching

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• It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

  Laozi

  Yield, Tao, Fitting

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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