Lao Tzu Quotes

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Lao Tzu

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

  

  Garth Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Why
  • Want

• You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Children
  • Kids

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Credit

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Inspires
  • Motto

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Fly
  • Cars
  • Saturn

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
  • Might

• The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Women
  • Step
  • The Lord

• There is good and bad in everyone.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Profound

• The revolution starts at the bottom.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Revolution
  • Bottom
  • Starts

• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • I Think
  • Planning
  • Master

• Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Trouble
  • Believed
  • Photographs

• 'A Flying Jatt' is a good superhero with no dark side. So, it is all good vs. all bad without any shades of grey.

  

  Remo D'Souza
  • Good
  • Flying
  • Superhero

• The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Knows
  • Use

• The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knows
  • Weak
  • Overcomes