Confucius Quotes
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
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It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
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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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Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
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When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.
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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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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
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A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.
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Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.
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What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.
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Justice for All in the World.
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To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
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All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.