Confucius Quotes
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Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.
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He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.
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Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
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Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
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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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In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.
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To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
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Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings.
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
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When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
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Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.
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If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.
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A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
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All things are already complete in oneself.
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There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
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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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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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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
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When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.
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Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have.