Quotes By Confucius

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

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Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

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Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

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The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

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If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.

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The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

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The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

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I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

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The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

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Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

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The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

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The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

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Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

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It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

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