Lao Tzu Quotes

Conquering the world and changing it, I do not think it can succeed.

Lao Tzu

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• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Always
  • Succeed
  • Doctor

• However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Work
  • May
  • Succeed

• I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Think
  • Changing
  • Satisfied

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• My personal style is ever changing.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Style
  • Personal
  • Changing

• I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Done
  • Lucky
  • Succeed

• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Always
  • Win
  • Succeed

• We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • America
  • Changing

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Changing
  • Terrorism
  • Fault

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Balance
  • Ocean
  • Changing

• I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Desire

• Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Up
  • Succeed

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace

  

  Philip Bailey Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Memories
  • Determination
  • Prison

• He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Changing
  • Point Of View
  • Pedestal

• I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Culture
  • Succeed
  • Temper

• While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Sleep

• It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Life
  • Want
  • Look

• Conquering the world and changing it, I do not think it can succeed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Succeed
  • Changing
  • Conquering