Inspirational Quotes by Confucius · Page 4

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

— Confucius

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

— Confucius

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

— Confucius

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

— Confucius

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

— Confucius

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

— Confucius

It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

— Confucius

Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

— 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

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in…

— Confucius

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

— Confucius

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of…

— Confucius

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how…

— Confucius

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

— Confucius

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

— Confucius

Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

— Confucius

“On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une.”

— 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

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

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

To become a leader, you must first become a human being

— Confucius

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

— Confucius

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

— 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

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— 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

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

A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step

— Confucius