Famous Quotes / Confucius
239 Quotations by Confucius
- 141. The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
- 142. The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
- 143. The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point -- but you are limiting yourself b ...
- 144. The practice of archery is somewhat like the principle of a superior person's life: When the archer ...
- 145. The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
- 146. The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- 147. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
- 148. The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- 149. The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. That being established, all practical cours ...
- 150. The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The ...
- 151. The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact t ...
- 152. The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
- 153. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- 154. The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
- 155. The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
- 156. The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
- 157. The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
- 158. The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be n ...
- 159. The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of s ...
- 160. The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is ...