He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
Those who stand on their toes are not steady.
Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.
What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.
Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.