Inspirational Quotes by Confucius · Page 5

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

— Confucius

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

— Confucius

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

— Confucius

“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”

— Confucius

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

— Confucius

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11)

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

“Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and…

— Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

— Confucius

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for…

— Confucius

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

— Confucius

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

— Confucius

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

— Confucius

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

— Confucius

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

— Confucius

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

— 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

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

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

— Confucius