Confucius Quotes

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

Confucius

• Warrior
• Good Man
• Nails

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Long
  • Money
  • Power

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • Night

• People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Educated

• My hair is naturally super curly. But I really don't do so much to it. I just sleep on it and see what happens.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Sleep
  • Hair

• I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Different
  • Done

• At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Food
  • Choices

• There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Literature

• I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

  

  Linford Christie

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Pain

• We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

  

  David Whyte
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Homecoming

• I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.

  

  Sia LSD

• It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

  

  Frank James
  • Long

• Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Struggle
  • Husband
  • Balance

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.

  

  August Wilson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Warrior

• I don't believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it's like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly.

  

  Jon Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

  

  Confucius
  • Warrior
  • Good Man
  • Nails