Tzu Quotes

#1. Things' essences all there endure.

Lao-Tzu

#2. Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Sun Tzu

#3. Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Lao-Tzu

#4. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Sun Tzu

#5. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

#6. Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Lao-Tzu

#7. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.

Lao-Tzu

#8. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

Lao-Tzu

#9. Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak.

Lao-Tzu

#10. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. Racing and hunting madden our minds.

Lao-Tzu

#12. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds
whatever we want.

Lao-Tzu

#13. It produces them and does not claim them as its own;

Lao-Tzu

#14. He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

Sun Tzu

#15. With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

Sun Tzu

#16. What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain.

Lao-Tzu

#17. If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Sun Tzu

#18. Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght.

Lao-Tzu

#19. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

#20. When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

Sun Tzu

#21. The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity.
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity.

Lao-Tzu

#22. Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

Sun Tzu

#23. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun Tzu

#24. Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy ... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

Sun Tzu

#25. Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu

#26. I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Lao-Tzu

#27. You must be swift as the wind, dense as the forest, rapacious as fire, steadfast like a mountain, mysterious as night and mighty as thunder.

Sun Tzu

#28. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

Sun Tzu

#29. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

#30. One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Orson Scott Card

#31. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

Sun Tzu

#32. Something can be beautiful, if something else is ugly.
Someone can be good, if someone else is bad.

Lao-Tzu

#33. Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Sun Tzu

#34. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe.

Lao-Tzu

#35. Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.

Sun Tzu

#36. Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

#37. In the next age they loved them and praised them.

Lao-Tzu

#38. It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, be able to evade them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

Sun Tzu

#39. There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Sun Tzu

#40. The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

Sun Tzu

#41. Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Sun Tzu

#42. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.

Lao-Tzu

#43. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

Lao-Tzu

#44. Pursue that which is not meddlesome.

Lao-Tzu

#45. Rapidity is the essence of war.

Sun Tzu

#46. Whoever knows what is enough Will be happy with his fate.

Lao-Tzu

#47. When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

Sun Tzu

#48. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.

Lao-Tzu

#49. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.

Lao-Tzu

#50. Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.

Lao-Tzu

#51. If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Sun Tzu

#52. Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine

Sun Tzu

#53. Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life.

Lao-Tzu

#54. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Sun Tzu

#55. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

Sun Tzu

#56. He who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.

Lao-Tzu

#57. Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet.

Lao-Tzu

#58. This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.

Sun Tzu

#59. Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.

Lao-Tzu

#60. And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

Sun Tzu

#61. The great Tao is universal like a flood ... All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.

Lao-Tzu

#62. Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Sun Tzu

#63. Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu

#64. In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

Sun Tzu

#65. He who conquers other has force; he who conquers himself has strength.

Lao-Tzu

#66. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.

Lao-Tzu

#67. The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Sun Tzu

#68. It might appear to have been before God.

Lao-Tzu

#69. True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.

Lao-Tzu

#70. Heaven and Earth (under its guidance) unite together and send down the sweet dew, which, without the directions of men, reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord.

Lao-Tzu

#71. Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

Cristina Garcia

#72. Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Martin Van Creveld

#73. Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu

Brandon Shire

#74. When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings who face the same two choices that their ancestors did for centuries before them: to destroy each other or to prosper together.

Thomas Huynh

#75. Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Sun Tzu

#76. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated

Sun Tzu

#77. It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

Lao-Tzu

#78. ...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

Inio Asano

#79. Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.

Lao-Tzu

#80. The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.

Lao-Tzu

#81. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

Lao-Tzu

#82. An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Lao-Tzu

#83. From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;

Lao-Tzu

#84. Creating without claiming. Doing without taking credit. Guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue.

Lao-Tzu

#85. Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Sun Tzu

#86. The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.

Lao-Tzu

#87. The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

Sun Tzu

#88. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding

Lao-Tzu

#89. A good traveler leaves no tracks.

Lao-Tzu

#90. he not honestly believed the contrary. And it is precisely on such a point that the judgment of an educated Chinaman will carry most weight. Other internal evidence is not far to seek. Thus in XIII. ss. 1, there is an unmistakable allusion to the ancient system

Sun Tzu

#91. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

Lao-Tzu

#92. The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Lao-Tzu

#93. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Scott Westerfeld

#94. Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Lao-Tzu

#95. But for those who need a system, Chuang Tzu offers the reminder that the fish trap is only needed to catch the fish; once the fish is caught the fish trap is no longer needed so much the better if the fish can be caught without the trap.

Ray Grigg

#96. Be where your enemy is not.

Sun Tzu

#97. One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

Sun Tzu

#98. To lead people, you must follow behind.

Lao-Tzu

#99. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.

Lao-Tzu

#100. He is free from self- display, and therefore he shines;

Lao-Tzu