Explore more quotes by Lao Tzu

"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."

Wisdom, Career, World

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

Wisdom, Love, Comfort

"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."

Ambition,

"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."

Strength, Nothing, Water, World

"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself."

Wisdom, Enemies, Man

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""

Leadership, Work, People, Leader

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

Wisdom, Virtue

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

Leadership, Work, Leader, People, Will

"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"

Patriotism, Men, Victory, Delight, Man

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

Wisdom, Laws, Order, Will

Exlpore more Trust quotes

"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Trust, Silence

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

Stephen King, American Author

Trust,

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Trust, Confidence, Respect, President

"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Trust, Man, Property, Public

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Trust, Planning, Thinking

"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Trust, Power, People, Exercise

"I trust no one, not even myself."

Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

Trust,

"Trust, but verify."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Trust,

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Trust, Suspicion

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Trust, End, Instinct, Reason