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> 22 quotes tagged "humility"
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Heaven and Earth last forever. Why do they last forever? They are unborn, so ever living.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 7
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The supreme good is like water, Which nourishes all things without trying to.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 8
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Favor and disgrace seem like fear to the world. Honor and big position seem like danger to the world.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 13
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The highest type of ruler is one of whose existence the people are barely aware.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 17
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He who stands on tiptoe is not steady; He who strides cannot maintain the pace.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 24
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He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm; He who stretches himself does not attain.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 26
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Know the male, yet keep to the female; Be a ravine to all under heaven.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 28
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When the country is in harmony with the Tao, horses run freely. When it departs from the Tao, war horses are bred.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 58
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The ancient masters were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream. Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 65
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My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet, the world cannot understand them.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 70
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The beginner's mind is not ignorance but openness. Wisdom begins when we acknowledge what we do not know. Seek teaching with humility and patience.I Ching, Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
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The mountain lowers itself beneath the earth. True greatness requires humility. In making yourself small, you become immeasurable.I Ching, Hexagram 15: Modesty / Humility
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The Tao-man in governing hides his intelligence; he blots out his symbols of majesty. Depending on the Tao, he does away with cleverness: he acts in common with the people, and everything is done on public ground.Huai Nan Tzu, Essay 1
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In humility you will find salvation; in bending you will find freedom. Submission and yielding paradoxically liberate leaders.Huai Nan Tzu, Essay 5
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Improve yourself before attempting to guide others.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions
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Refrain from exposing others' shortcomings or advertising your own virtues.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions
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Endure shame without resentment.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions
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Accept kindness with gratitude rather than expectation.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions
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Here are my three treasures. Guard and keep them! The first is pity; the second, frugality; the third, refusal to be foremost of all things under heaven. For only he that pities is truly able to be brave; Only he that is frugal is able to be profuse. Only he that refuses to be foremost of all things is truly able to become chief of all Ministers.Tao Te Ching, Chapter 67
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The best charioteers do not rush ahead; The best fighters do not make displays of wrath. The greatest conqueror wins without joining issue; The best user of men acts as though he were their inferior. This is called the power that comes of not contending, is called the capacity to use men, the secret of being mated to heaven.Tao Te Ching, Chapter 68
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A great nation is like a low-lying delta — the meeting place of all rivers, the feminine of the world. The feminine always overcomes the masculine through stillness; by stillness she takes the lower position. A great state, by placing itself below a small state, wins the small state over. Both gain what they seek when the greater one learns to be low.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 61
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Yield and overcome. Bend and be straight. Empty and be full. Wear out and be new. Have little and gain. Have much and be confused. Therefore the sage embraces the One and becomes a model for the world. He does not put himself on display, and therefore shines. He does not justify himself, and therefore is distinguished. He does not boast, and therefore has merit. He does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.Tao Te Ching – Chapter 22