Confucius Quotes

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

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• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Youth

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Author
  • Generation
  • Youth

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Youth
  • Serenity
  • Smiling

• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Today
  • Energy
  • Youth

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Same
  • Youth

• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Youth

• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Television
  • Youth

• I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Study

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Art
  • Expression
  • Youth

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

• And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Youth
  • Contagious
  • Dew

• Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

  

  William Banting
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Enemy

• All of the men have been very respectful of me. And that's what I want. They don't have to like you. But as long as they respect you, that's really important. When I speak, I'm listened to. And when I try to move the ball, I do.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Speak

• Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Soul

• A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

  

  Confucius
  • Youth
  • Respectful
  • Filial