Lao Tzu Quotes

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.