Lao Tzu Quotes

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.

Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.