Confucius Quotes
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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
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Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.
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I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?
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In language clarity is everything.
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
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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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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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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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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy.
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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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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.