Confucius Quotes

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Confucius

• Concern
• Maintain
• Virtuous

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Long
  • Way
  • Back

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Mother
  • English
  • Magic

• I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Try
  • Ice

• Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Die
  • Ideas

• Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Rock
  • Again
  • Genuine

• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dream

• I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Girls
  • Answer
  • Tall

• The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

  

  August Krogh
  • Alone
  • Evidence
  • Oxygen

• To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Literature
  • Force
  • Elude

• I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Men
  • Earth

• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Done
  • Easy

• Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore, go against them trusting boldly to good fortune. Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves. - Boudica

  

  Cassius Dio
  • Bravery
  • Superior
  • Neither

• Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Animal
  • Humans
  • Currents

• If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

  

  Confucius
  • Concern
  • Maintain
  • Virtuous