Confucius Quotes

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• The migration wave can be stopped.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Wave
  • Stopped
  • Migration

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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  • Want
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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • You

• I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Person
  • Company
  • Run

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • House
  • Things

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Start

• I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Moment

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Like

• I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Pressure
  • Grateful

• Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

  

  Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
  • People
  • Respect
  • Band

• Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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  • Want
  • Say

• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Speech
  • Cave
  • Materia Prima

• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  

  Confucius
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