When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.
When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.
To have little is to possess.
Every human being’s essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
If you have truely attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.