Confucius Quotes

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • People
  • Live
  • Courage

• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Television
  • Radio
  • Leave

• It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

  

  Randy Travis
  • World
  • Leave
  • Behind

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Done
  • Style
  • Leave

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Good
  • Character
  • Courage

• The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Courage
  • Attack
  • Dangers

• I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Body

• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Never
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

  

  John Gokongwei
  • School
  • Why
  • Boy

• Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

  

  Confucius
  • Courage
  • Leave
  • Faced