Confucius Quotes

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability.

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
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• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  

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• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
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• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
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• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

  

  Vida Blue
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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• 100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• He was a man, he always performed his promises.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
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• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

  

  Aristotle
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• Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.

  

  Michael Faraday
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• But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

  

  Laura Miller
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• Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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• For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Ability
  • Distressed