Confucius Quotes
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.
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A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
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Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
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Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.
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The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
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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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If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life.
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The object of the superior man is truth.
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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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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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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
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The more people know, the more they forgive.
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
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The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.