Confucius Quotes
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What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.
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What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.
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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously.
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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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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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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
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Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.
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Never tire to study. And to teach to others.
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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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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
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Study the past if you want to define the future.
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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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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
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The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
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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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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.
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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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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 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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The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.