Lao Tzu Leadership Quotes & Sayings

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people. — Lao-Tzu

Giving birth without possessing,
animating without subjecting,
fostering without dominating. — Lao-Tzu

Still, we made it back to the corn mill, and even though it felt like a dwarf with a chisel had taken up permanent residence in my frontal lobe, I managed to stagger all the way back to the house. — Rachel Hawkins

I don't care what the airlines say, there is no such thing as a non-stop flight. — Steve Trotter

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. — Lao-Tzu

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another. — Grant Morrison

Is one deserving of reverence as an instructor in holy things who deliberately chooses to ignore truth and continues to teach error? Such may be worthy of those who would place a sect above all else. Surely it has no place in the life or thought of men and women who love the truth more than life itself. — W. Carl Ketcherside

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection. — Eula Biss

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start
with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best
leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will
say 'We have done this ourselves. — Lao-Tzu

To lead people, you must follow behind. — Lao-Tzu

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler. — Steve Carell

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft. — Damian Kulash

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him. — Lao-Tzu

Listen, I'm going to give you some advice, not because I
think you need it, but because I feel like I've earned it. The right, I mean. To give advice. Here it is:
don't hold onto things. It's a problem the men in my family have. It's taken me a long time to figure
this out. Me, my father, my grandfather, we collect things. We collect miseries. It's what we do. But
sometimes the best thing to do is to just let things go. To let them pass. — Joe Meno

The mind never sleeps. Though the body can be idle, there shall always be something for the mind to do! Do something with your mind then! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for. — Alvin E. Roth

To lead people, walk beside them. — Lao-Tzu

It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end. — Anne Tyler

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths. — Jonathan Cainer

At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It — Yuval Noah Harari

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence. — F.B. Meyer

We want each other. We want to figure out what this thing is between us that's haunting me day and night. You're in every breath I take Raven. It's driving me mad. — Jennifer Probst

Be the chief but never the lord. — Lao-Tzu