Lao Tzu Quotes

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

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• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Future
  • Look
  • Where

• I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Now
  • Beer
  • Solution

• When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Up
  • Night
  • Growing

• I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Love
  • Playoffs
  • Cup

• So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • World

• One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • God
  • House
  • Community

• The 49ers drafted me assuming I wanted to play more than one year. At the time, I did, too. Things changed. They didn't deserve to be undercut. And I didn't want that to happen.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Time

• If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Work
  • Rest
  • Value

• I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

  

  John Grogan
  • World
  • Live
  • Earth

• I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Great
  • Italian

• I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • Help

• Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

  

  John Milius
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Drama

• A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

  

  John Bolton
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.

  

  David Suchet
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Strong

• He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

  

  Plato
  • Action
  • Athlete
  • Savage

• This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • May
  • War
  • Universe

• True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • True
  • Spirit
  • Benevolence

• Abandon all, you will receive heaven.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Heaven
  • Receive
  • Abandon

• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Abandon
  • Benevolence
  • Family Ties