Lao Tzu Quotes

He who hoards much loses much.

Lao Tzu

• Loses
• Hoards

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • American
  • Small

• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

  

  Jami Attenberg

• Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Men

• The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

  

  Friedrich St. Florian
  • Time
  • War
  • Attitude

• It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?

  

  James Welch
  • People
  • Period

• The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

  

  Les Brown
  • Help

• The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Ideas
  • Loses
  • Awful

• the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Art

• The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Grandmother

• To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Loses
  • Willing
  • Sight

• Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Money
  • Care
  • Easy

• Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Mother
  • Mean
  • Loses

• We lose all that time which we might employ better.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Might

• When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Challenge

• It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Fun
  • Games
  • Loses

• If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Regret
  • Loses

• Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Loses
  • Faculty
  • Professors

• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Lies

• He who hoards much loses much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Loses
  • Hoards