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Laozi Quotes about Water

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Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Encouraging, Positivity, Water

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Compassion, People, Water

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Patience, Knowledge, Water

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.

Strong, Power, Water

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

Love, Water, Way

Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.11, Chinese University Press

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Water, Taoism, Enlightening

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

Lying, Water, Mystery

The good leader carries water for his people.

People, Water, Leader

Water does not force its way.

Water, Doe, Way

Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

Water, Clear, Muddy

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

Water, Way To Live, Benefits

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

Strong, Water, Overcoming

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

Water, Return, Clarity

A whale out of water is over-run by ants.

Running, Whales, Water

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Wisdom, People, Water

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

Law, Water, Flow

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

Water, Doe, Benefits

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

Powerful, Water, Clear

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

Positivity, Water, Clear

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

Strong, Water, Attacking

Tao-te Ching ch. 78 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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

Strong, Water, Earth

Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Water, Taoism, Obscure

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