Confucius Quotes

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

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• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Mind
  • Help

• I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Way
  • Always
  • Guess

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Child
  • Poor

• No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Doctor

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.'

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Important
  • Live
  • Dream

• I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Important
  • Country

• You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're not professionals; they don't know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that position is tricky. You have to look at it from their standpoint. It's so much pressure.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Husband

• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Old
  • Grow
  • Quit

• The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

  

  Confucius
  • Life
  • Way
  • Child