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• A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

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• Build up virtue, and you master all.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery, Life, Motion, Enlightenment

• "Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

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• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

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• Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Appreciation, Life

• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Flexibility, Death, Life

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

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• What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception