Inspirational Quotes by Confucius · Page 5

A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step

— Confucius

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

— Confucius

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

— Confucius

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

— Confucius

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

— Confucius

Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.

— Confucius

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is…

— Confucius

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

— Confucius

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

— Confucius

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of…

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.

— Confucius

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

— Confucius

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

— Confucius

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

— Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

— Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.

— Confucius

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

— Confucius

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

— Confucius

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

— Confucius

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

— Confucius

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

— Confucius

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

— Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

— Confucius

If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

— Confucius

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

— Confucius

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

— Confucius

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

— Confucius

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

— Confucius

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.

— Confucius