Quote by Lao Tzu
It is better to do ones own duty, however defective it may be, tha

It is better to do ones own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. – Lao Tzu

Other quotes by Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

Category:
Travel
Author
Lao Tzu
Read Quote

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? – Lao Tzu

Category:
Men
Author
Lao Tzu
Read Quote

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu

Category:
Patience
Author
Lao Tzu
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Nature

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Nature

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. – Marian Anderson

Category:
Nature

People who dont see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. – Bodhidharma

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now… – Henry Miller

Category:
Torture

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters. – Conrad Hall

Category:
Romantic

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they dont know than they are about how theyre going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job. – John Podhoretz

Category:
Food

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Life