Quotes by Confucius

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

Confucius on diligence
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"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

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

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

Confucius on failure
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"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on faith
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."

Confucius on family
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

Confucius on fate
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"The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost."

Confucius on fate
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius on fathers
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."

Confucius on faults
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"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

Confucius on faults
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"Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed."

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

Confucius on faults
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"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart."

Confucius on fools and foolishness
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"Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf."

Confucius on forgiveness
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius on growth
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"We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves."

Confucius on happiness
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"To be with God."

Confucius on heaven
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on ignorance
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"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on action
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things."

Confucius on joy
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"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."

Confucius on kindness
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"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."

Confucius on knowledge
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius on knowledge
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"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?"

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

Confucius on learning
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"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

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

Confucius on animals
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society."

Confucius on manners
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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