Confucius Quotes
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In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.
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Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.
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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
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Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
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When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.
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There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
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The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
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The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
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In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
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The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.
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Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.
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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
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The person of benevolence never worries.
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The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.