Lao Tzu Quotes

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Learn to eat problems for breakfast

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference