Confucius Quotes
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
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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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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.
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A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.
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Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
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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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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.
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I am not an originator but a transmitter.
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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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A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.
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The more people know, the more they forgive.
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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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An angry person is always full of poison.
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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
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If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
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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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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.