Confucius Quotes
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A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
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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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Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk.
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A picture is poem without words.
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.
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If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
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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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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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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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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
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If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
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To become a leader, you must first become a human being.
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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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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.
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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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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
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The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'