Confucius Quotes
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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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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Those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.
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If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
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Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
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A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
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We should worship as though the deity were present.
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The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.
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The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
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He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity.
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Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
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To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
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Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.
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A man of wisdom delights in water.
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If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
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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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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
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If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
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From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.