Confucius

Quotes by Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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

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

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

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The cautious seldom err.