Confucius Quotes
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A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
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You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
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When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.
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Never tire to study. And to teach to others.
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It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
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Study the past if you want to define the future.
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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
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We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
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Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.
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The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
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The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.
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Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
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The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
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How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.
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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.