Confucius Quotes

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

An image is better than one thousand words

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.

I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

The person of benevolence never worries.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.