Confucius Quotes
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Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?
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An angry man is full of poison.
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
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Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one.
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The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
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When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
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He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
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Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.
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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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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
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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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Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.
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Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?
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Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
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There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
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A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.