Quote from Lao-tzu:
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.
Simimal Quotes:
Captain J. A. Hatfield
The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.
Wallace D. Wattles
The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.
Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Lao-tzu
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.
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.
Seneca
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-workâdeclining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.
Leonardo da Vinci
The desire to know is natural to good men.
James Allen
Break away from the tyranny of custom, tradition, conventionality, and the opinions of others, until you succeed in walking lonely and erect against men.
Carlos Castaneda
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
Lao-tzu
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.
