Lao Tzu Quotes

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

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• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Done
  • Hear
  • Drummer

• Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • People
  • Life

• Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Achieved

• Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Doe

• Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Sage

• The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Attention
  • Merit
  • Sage

• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • Desires
  • Achieved

• I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Answers
  • Compulsion

• Education is not received. It is achieved.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Education
  • Achieved
  • Received

• Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Achieved
  • Victories

• Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mistake
  • Achieved
  • Mastery

• What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Language
  • Word

• The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Speech

• For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Writing
  • Explanation
  • Hunts

• The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sage
  • Pierce
  • Offend

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Credit
  • Sage
  • Display

• To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Health
  • Secret

• Justice is only achieved in beautiful fullness when the oppressed has been elevated back to their rightful place, and when those who were guilty of the oppressing have experienced repentance, healing, and restoration as well.--justice is only achieved in beautiful fullness when the oppressed has been elevated back to their rightful place, and when those who were guilty of the oppressing have experienced repentance, healing, and restoration as well.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Justice
  • Guilty
  • Achieved

• It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Age
  • Food
  • Relationship

• A simple 'I love you' means more than money.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Money
  • Mean
  • More

• I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Remember
  • Scientist

• The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Achieved
  • Sage
  • Strives