Confucius Quotes
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I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.
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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
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With a heavy load and a long journey.
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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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An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
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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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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
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The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.
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It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.
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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
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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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The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
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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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If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
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The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.