Confucius Quotes

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

Confucius

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Poor
  • Leave
  • Behind

• The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Race

• Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Country
  • Night

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • You
  • Living
  • Achievement

• There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Actress
  • Believes
  • Awful

• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • School
  • Team
  • Chess

• In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Women
  • Country
  • Model

• Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sailing

• It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Parents

• Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Greed

• I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

  Garry Kasparov

• My boat is on the shore,And my bark is on the sea;But, before I go, Tom Moore.Here's a double health to thee!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Health
  • Sea
  • Boat

• This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Political
  • Independent

• Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • American

• Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Forget

• We have a house near East Hampton, and of all the beaches I've been to, I think there is something so beautiful about Long Island beaches. I love them in the fall and winter.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Long
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Job
  • Simple
  • Stage

• No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

  

  Karen Marie Moning
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

  

  Confucius
  • Winter
  • Fade
  • Pine