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

• Whatever the road, it matters only where it leads.

  

  Vladimir Vysotsky
  • Road
  • Matters
  • Leads

• It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.

  

  Anne Roe
  • Law
  • Church
  • Matters

• I have a feeling that I'll only have a home when I put a flag in my house with the person I'm going to be with. That's going to be my home. So I only see home in that sense. It's where love is going to lead me. It can be anywhere, basically, as long as you are with the person you want to be with, so you can build something together.

  

  Haider Ackermann
  • Long
  • Home
  • Together

• Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

  

  Sophocles
  • Teach
  • Gods
  • Blessedness

• 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