Confucius Quotes
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The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.
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With a heavy load and a long journey.
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Don't let your past determine your destiny.
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Heaven means to be one with God.
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In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
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We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.
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In language clarity is everything.
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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
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There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
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Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
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If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.