If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. — Confucius Copy Share Image
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness… — Confucius Copy Share Image
When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people. — Confucius Copy Share Image
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding… — Confucius Copy Share Image
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men;… — Confucius Copy Share
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share
