Confucius Quotes and Quotations
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The cautious seldom err.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
The cautious seldom err.
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
Heaven means to be one with God.
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
Learning without thought is labor lost.