Lao Tzu Quotes

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Given
  • Credit

• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Time
  • Credit

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Done
  • Credit
  • Gotten

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Giving
  • Just
  • Credit

• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
  • Necessary
  • Keeping

• Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Name

• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • High
  • House
  • Doing

• I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • Question
  • Politics

• It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Credit
  • Cards
  • Customer

• President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Respect
  • Problem
  • Serious

• Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • People
  • Why
  • Credit

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Lose
  • Fail
  • Sage

• Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

  

  Wayne Teasdale
  • Experience
  • Gift
  • Realize

• Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Responsibility

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Taken

• The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

  

  Afeni Shakur
  • Difference
  • Spotlight
  • Black Men

• The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

  

  Lao Tzu
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