Lao Tzu Quotes

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

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• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
  • Seek
  • Approval

• I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Convince
  • Awkward
  • Hype

• Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Anything
  • Dare
  • Approval

• Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Nobody
  • Believes
  • Till

• We convince by our presence.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • inspirational
  • Convince
  • Our

• Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Everyone
  • Likes
  • Approval

• First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Myself
  • Prove
  • Convince

• The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Knows
  • Easier

• A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Man
  • Word
  • Believes

• It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fighting

• To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Decision
  • Sorry
  • Consequences

• Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless...

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Moment

• No one really believes in equality who's on top.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Equality
  • Top
  • Believes

• Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Friends
  • Enemy
  • Next

• Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Work
  • Free
  • Approval

• When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Family
  • Love
  • Faith

• I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Vote
  • Presidential
  • Election

• Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Job
  • Being tested

• Every footfall, every voice was Don Achille creeping up behind us or coming down toward us with a long knife, the kind used for slicing open a chicken breast. There was an odor of sautéing garlic. Maria, Don Achille’s wife, would put me in the pan of boiling oil, the children would eat me, he would suck my head the way my father did with mullets.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Father
  • Football

• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Convince
  • Believes
  • Approval