Confucius Quotes

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

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• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Distance
  • Qualities
  • Close

• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Know
  • Qualities

• Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Leadership

• There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions;Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Work
  • Great
  • Friend

• For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• A lot of the songs are very rock-oriented. My voice makes them country, and a lot of people think that is a strange combination... I think it creates something different and unique.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• The thing I want to emphasize is this: We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do. We have certain rules in the league. Here's the cap, here's the numbers, here's what you can spend. So everybody in the league can do what we're doing. It's just that many choose not to.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Done
  • Rule
  • League

• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  

  Allen Tate
  • May
  • History
  • Alone

• I'm really thrilled that I met someone that I want to spend the rest of my life with.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Thrilled

• Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Suffering
  • Spiritual
  • Fortune

• All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

  

  Elinor Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Environment

• I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Fans
  • Hours
  • Half

• She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • She
  • Leadership
  • Qualities

• People would use each other in their works. The barriers were breaking down; everyone brought in special qualities.

  

  James Tenney
  • People
  • Works
  • Qualities

• You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Admire
  • Qualities

• But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • God
  • Grateful
  • Qualities

• Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • Qualities

• The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Qualities
  • Vain
  • Illuminating

• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  

  Confucius
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Qualities

• Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • Qualities
  • Unnecessary

• They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Night
  • Earth
  • Ocean

• I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom. I like it when people are open and are willing to let you do your work.

  

  Richard Jenkins
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Relaxed

• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Men
  • Ironic
  • Significance

• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

  

  Confucius
  • Qualities
  • Emphasize
  • Accentuate