Lao Tzu Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

2. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch The Wisdom of Laotse

3. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

4. Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others. Tao Te Ching

5. He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

6. He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Tao Te Ching

7. If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

8. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. Tao Te Ching

9. Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Tao Te Ching

10. Love is a decision - not an emotion! Tao Te Ching

11. The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. Tao Te Ching

12. A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick. The Chinese Translations

13. As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

14. Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

15. Existence is beyond the power of wordsTo define:Terms may be usedBut are none of them absolute.In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,Words came out of the womb of matter;And whether a man dispassionatelySees to the core of lifeOr passionatelySees the surface,The core and the surfaceAre essentially the same,Words making them seem differentOnly to express appearance.If name be needed, wonder names them both:From wonder into wonderExistence opens.

16. If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal. Tao Te Ching

17. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

18. 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. Tao Te Ching

19. The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. Te Tao Ching

20. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.

21. To know and to think we know not, is the crown. Not to know and to think we know, is the affliction. Tao Te Ching

22. To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

23. Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Tao Te Ching

24. We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

25. Liebe ist die stärkste aller Leidenschaften, weil sie gleichzeitig den Kopf, das Herz und die Sinne angreift. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

26. Zutiefst geliebt von jemandem zu sein, gibt dir Kraft, während dich jemand tief zu lieben Mut gibt. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.