Confucius Quotes
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
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In language clarity is everything.
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One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
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With a heavy load and a long journey.
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To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?
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An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
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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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We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
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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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Don't let your past determine your destiny.
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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? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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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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The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.