A Quote by Laozi

In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

Laozi

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

Laozi

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Laozi

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Laozi

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Lao Tzu

A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.

Laozi

Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

Laozi

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

Laozi

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Laozi

Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

Laozi

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid

When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

Laozi

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

Guillermo del Toro

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

Laozi

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

Mas Oyama

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

Laozi

The benefit of fast play is that you'll get players to commit their chips with relatively weak hands since it will be hard for them to believe that you have a strong hand every single time. The downside is that your opponents will raise weak when you have nothing at all, forcing you to fold.

Phil Hellmuth

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