Lao Tzu Quotes

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.

We've always been able to bounce back.

You have to be resilient.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors .... They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

Resilience can go an awful long way.

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

That which yields is not always weak.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.