Confucius Quotes

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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• I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Support
  • Opinion

• When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Never
  • Keep
  • Conversations

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• He had delusions of adequacy.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Had
  • Delusions
  • Adequacy

• I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Success
  • Small
  • New

• I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Way
  • Reason

• Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Movies

• I'm a total performer.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Performer
  • Total

• Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Drinking
  • Accepted
  • Juice

• The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Christianity
  • Recognize

• I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Today
  • Path

• It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Education
  • Support
  • Mean

• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Society
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• Let this constitution go forth from this convention, and from the new state, a model instrument of liberal and enlightened principles.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Constitution
  • Principles
  • New State

• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Moments
  • Feelings
  • Principles

• Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Behavior
  • Principles

• How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Respect

• When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

  

  Confucius
  • Principles
  • Exercises
  • Reciprocity