"He who controls others may be powerful, but……" — Laozi
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be…
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More Controls Quotes
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
— Aeschylus
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
— Sitting Bull
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we…
— Dick Cheney
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls…
— William J. Clinton
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty,…
— Alan K. Simpson
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about…
— Wilma Mankiller
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
— John Donne
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