Confucius Quotes
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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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The object of the superior man is truth.
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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.
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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
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In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
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Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
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He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
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Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.
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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
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Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world.
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.