Confucius famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Happiness #Graduation

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
-- Confucius

#Success #Congratulations #Failure

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Motivational #Clever

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
-- Confucius

#Giving Up #Thinking #Doe

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
-- Confucius

#Positive #Monday #Motivation

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
-- Confucius

#Cat #Dark #Black

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
-- Confucius

#Education #Teacher #Educational

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.
-- Confucius

#Wisdom #Attitude #Crazy

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
-- Confucius

#Wise #Inspiration #Men

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
-- Confucius

#Happiness #Wise #Water

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
-- Confucius

#Wisdom #Names

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.
-- Confucius

#Appreciate #Chinese #Taste

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
-- Confucius

#Way #Rich #Honorable

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
-- Confucius

#Good Life #Consideration #Bases

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

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
-- Confucius

#People #Forever #Noble

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
-- Confucius

#Love #Fear #Integrity

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
-- Confucius

#Life #Success #Wise

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
-- Confucius

#Human Nature #Sincerity #Virtue

Make fair agreements and stick to them
-- Confucius

#Agreement #Sticks

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
-- Confucius

#Yoga #Simple #Virtue

Never seek illicit wealth.
-- Confucius

#Wealth

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
-- Confucius

#Would Be #Thoughtfulness #Standards

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius

#Wise #Philosophical #Impact

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
-- Confucius

#Fame #Worthy #Concerned

When the wind blows,the grass bends.
-- Confucius

#Blow #Wind #Grass

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
-- Confucius

#Leadership #Philosophical #People

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

#Wise #Heart #Men

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
-- Confucius

#Gentleman #Would Be #Deeds

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
-- Confucius

#Worry #Roles #Position

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
-- Confucius

#Vices #Appearance #Virtue

When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, 'he loves learning.'
-- Confucius

#Men #Perfect #People

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
-- Confucius

#Inspiring #Children #Years

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
-- Confucius

#Education #Kindness #Men

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-- Confucius

#Music #Profound #Desire

An image is better than one thousand words
-- Confucius

#Photography #Thousand

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
-- Confucius

#Zeal

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
-- Confucius

#Men #Earnest #Superior Man

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.
-- Confucius

#Wise #Men #Bravery

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

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
-- Confucius

#Life #Wisdom #Answers

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

#Gentleman #Pay #Vulgar

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
-- Confucius

#Reading #Ignorance #Self

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
-- Confucius

#Gratitude #Men #Shoes

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.
-- Confucius

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
-- Confucius

#Wisdom #True Knowledge

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
-- Confucius

#Men #Can Not

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
-- Confucius

#People #Liberty

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Courage #Philosophical

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
-- Confucius

#Education #Wise #Clever

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
-- Confucius

#Men #Great Men

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
-- Confucius

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
-- Confucius

#Responsibility #Men #Virtue

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.
-- Confucius

#Leadership #Mistake #Men

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Life #Change

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
-- Confucius

#Country #Liberty #Politics

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
-- Confucius

#Roots #Care #Branches

If we don't know life, how can we know death?
-- Confucius

#Life #Death #Life Death

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

#Fathers Day #Son #Doe

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
-- Confucius

#Inspiration #Together #Way

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
-- Confucius

#Teacher #Learning #Giving

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
-- Confucius

#Two #Rabbits

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
-- Confucius

#Life #Doors #Use

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

#Character #Men #Chinese

It is better to play than do nothing.
-- Confucius

#Clever #Play

Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
-- Confucius

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

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

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

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

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

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

#Positive #Forgiveness #Attitude

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Courage

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
-- Confucius

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
-- Confucius

#Men #Giving

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

#Friendship #Trust #Betrayal

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
-- Confucius

#Life #Change #Clever

You cannot open a book without learning something.
-- Confucius

#Educational #Book #Reading

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
-- Confucius

#Forgiveness #Letting Go #Forgiving

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
-- Confucius

#Snow #Complaining #Neighbor

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
-- Confucius

#Views #Tree #Lions

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Happy New Year #Learning

If you want to change the world, first change your heart.
-- Confucius

#Success #Heart #World

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
-- Confucius

#Nursing #Men #Nurse

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
-- Confucius

#Revenge #Journey #Two

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
-- Confucius

#Death

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Men #Trials

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

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.
-- Confucius

#Learning #Ignorance #Achievement

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
-- Confucius

#Life #Wise #Organization

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
-- Confucius

#Men #Good Man #Trying

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
-- Confucius

#Distance #Golf #Two

He who chases two rabbits, catches none.
-- Confucius

#Two #Rabbits

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
-- Confucius

#Wonder

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.
-- Confucius

#Grief #Moving #Inability

To think twice is quite enough.
-- Confucius

#Thinking #Enough

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
-- Confucius

#Funny #Life #Worry

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.
-- Confucius

#Practice #Essentials #Useless