Confucius Quotes

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

Confucius

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
  • Habits

• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Free
  • Hand

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.

  

  Wilson Rawls
  • People
  • Trying

• I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

  

  Barbara DeGenevieve
  • Work
  • Current
  • Pornographic

• I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Men
  • Happiness

• People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Despair

• Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

  

  Confucius
  • Happiness
  • Mountain
  • Climb