Skip to content

Fence Quote by Laozi

“Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.” quote by Laozi — Download Open image

“Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Fence Gentleness Heaven Humility Lowliness Political Politics Rounds Safety Victory

More by Laozi

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Image

In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.

Image

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow…

Image

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Image

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that…

Image

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

Image

Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty…

Image

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

Image

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short…

Image

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect…

Image

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

Image

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

Image

Explore all 1,140 Laozi quotes

More Fence quotes

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

Image

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little…

Image

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the…

Image

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

Image

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got…

Lee Friedlander

Image

My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons…

Image

Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about…

Janeane Garofalo

Image

Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which…

Image

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My…

Image

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

Ben Aaronovitch

Image

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing…

Image

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might…

Image

Browse all 607 Fence quotes