Confucius Quotes

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

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• Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fun
  • Matters
  • Having Fun

• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Matters

• When all else fails, complicate matters.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Matters
  • Else
  • Complicate

• To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Me
  • Clear

• Tone matters more than words.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Words
  • Matters
  • Tone

• Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Play
  • Role
  • Matters

• If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Hero
  • Matters

• Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Now
  • Fact
  • Matters

• To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Customers
  • Where
  • Matters

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Matters

• What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Matters

• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Equipment

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Morning

• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Retire

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • History
  • Songs

• I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.

  

  Nora Waln
  • Love
  • Book
  • Think

• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  

  Confucius
  • Matters
  • Concerns
  • Entrusted