Confucius Quotes
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Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.
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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
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A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.
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To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
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Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
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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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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.
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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
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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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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.