Lao Tzu Quotes

A great man is always willing to be little.

I've never considered myself as a legend - just a simple man with heart.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

True humility is contentment.

I just want to be humble at all times.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Work at being a humble person.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Live simply so that others may simply live.