Laozi

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Simplicity, patience, compassion._x000D_ _x000D_ These three are your greatest treasures._x000D_ _x000D_ Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being._x000D_ _x000D_ Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are._x000D_ _x000D_ Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

An integral being knows without going,_x000D_ _x000D_ sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

Be the chief but never the lord.

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'