Confucius Quotes

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

Confucius

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• My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'

  

  Cam
  • Good
  • Job
  • Parents

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Kid

• I want to help people; that's it.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Help
  • Want

• My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

  

  Halsey
  • Alone
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Like
  • Characters
  • Films

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Me

• Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• And all for love, and nothing for reward.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Nothing

• I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Open
  • Fair
  • Wanting

• A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Business
  • Goals

• I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Jane Campion is a tough director.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Tough
  • Director
  • Jane

• I hope I'm always learning something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hope
  • Learning
  • Something

• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  

  Livy
  • Nature

• Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Great
  • Imagination

• If you are anxious, if you doubt yourself, if you stress over everything, it ultimately means you really care about what you do.

  

  Amy Macdonald
  • Care
  • Anxious
  • You Do

• Success in life is to be measured by the goals you’ve set yourself.

  

  Apostolos Doxiadis
  • Success
  • Goals
  • Measured

• I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Means
  • Achieved
  • Civil

• If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

  

  Confucius
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Establishment