Lao Tzu Quotes

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

Lao Tzu

• Praise
• Respectable

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Praise
  • Salt

• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Man
  • Praise
  • Over

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Girl
  • Teach
  • Praise

• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Respect
  • Literature

• If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

  

  Umar
  • God
  • Praise
  • Praying

• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Love
  • Praise

• Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Powerful
  • inspirational

• Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Adversity
  • Praise
  • Divert

• We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Virtues

• Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Improvement
  • Praise
  • Hearty

• Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.

  

  David Deida
  • Power
  • Food
  • Health

• 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

• Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Today

• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Criticism
  • Praise
  • Deceived

• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Trouble
  • Criticism
  • Praise

• Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Advice
  • Ability
  • Argument

• In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Art
  • Book
  • Kind

• If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Enemy
  • Opponent

• He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Praise
  • Respectable