Confucius Quotes
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
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The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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In language clarity is everything.
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When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.
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Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
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At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin
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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
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If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
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The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.