When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Quote by Lao Tzu
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Lao Tzu Quotes
- Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
- Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.
- Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
- The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Silence is a source of great strength.
- Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Best Quotes
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
- You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
- It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
- Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
- The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.
- I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
- And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
- Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
- Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.