Confucius Quotes

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

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• I dont consider myself a feminist, but Im down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, What do you want to say? it would be, Love yourself more.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Meaningful

• It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • Behavior
  • Consider

• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Trying
  • May
  • Soul

• When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Job

• Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Possibility
  • Consider
  • Miracles

• My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

  

  James Boswell
  • Consider
  • Readers
  • Quotation

• At this point in time, I don't know if I would change my mind or not, ... I'd certainly consider it. But when I look at the reasons we came up with it in the first place, I'm not sure I would.

  

  John Whiting
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Point

• They should also consider owning their property as tenants-in-common, rather than jointly, and they could also think about leaving their property in some form of trust.

  

  John Whiting
  • Leaving
  • Form
  • Property

• We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Next
  • Consider

• Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Impossible
  • Consider
  • New Look

• I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Consider
  • Attractive

• A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

  

  Plato
  • Chance
  • Consider
  • Calculate

• Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Consider
  • Physician

• Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Selfishness
  • Cultivation
  • Unsatisfactory

• To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Freedom
  • Actions
  • Consider

• Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

  

  Epictetus
  • Picture
  • Consider
  • Commit

• Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Silent
  • Human being
  • Consider

• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Enemy
  • Glory
  • Fantasy

• We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

  

  George Eliot
  • Wrong
  • Consider

• I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.

  

  Carlos Celdran
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Spiritual

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

  

  Moliere
  • Harm
  • React
  • No Matter What

• From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

  

  Confucius
  • Consider
  • Cultivation
  • Son Of Heaven