Laozi Quotes, Leadership Quotes, People Quotes

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

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Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

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As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

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Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

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The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

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Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.

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Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

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Those who are unswerving have resolve

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Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

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Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

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Meet the difficult while it is easy.

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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

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The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

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Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

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Good walking leaves no track behind it.

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He who controls the past controls the future.

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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

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