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Confucius Quotes

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."

"Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?"

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."

"The people may be made to follow a course of action,
but they may not be made to understand it."

"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

"Study the past, if you would define the future."

"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin.
When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come.
Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly.
Do not look at small advantages.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."

"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves."

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

"Mankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away."

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."

"Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors."

"I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep.
My shadow in a pond can do better than that."

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

"Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan."

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."

"Respect yourself and others with respect you."

"The object of the superior man is truth."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

"The cautious seldom err.
Learning without thought it labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

"A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

"A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act."

"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

"The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm."

"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business,
and success only a subsequent consideration."

"If one's character is rectified, then things will get done without orders.
If one cannot rectify one's own character, what has one to do with rectifying others?"

"Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt.
Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor."

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

"A gentleman is calm and spacious; the vulgar are always fretting."

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them;
when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad.
The inferior does the reverse."

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."

"Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach."

"When prosperity comes do not use all of it."

"The chase of gain is rich in hate."

"Do not use a bow and arrow to kill a mosquito."

"Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness; but, better be mean than self-willed."

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
A man who stands on a hill with his mouth open will wait a long time for roast duck to drop in."

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."