People Quotes by Confucius · Page 2

Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

— Confucius

A perfumed butthole is still a butthole.

— Confucius

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

— Confucius

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

— Confucius

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding…

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

— Confucius

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

— Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms…

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

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

— Confucius

The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's…

— Confucius

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof…

— Confucius

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true…

— Confucius

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one…

— Confucius

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good,…

— Confucius

When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is…

— Confucius

A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress…

— Confucius

Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.

— Confucius

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

— Confucius

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

— Confucius

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

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

— Confucius

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

— Confucius

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the…

— Confucius

By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

— Confucius

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

— Confucius

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

— Confucius

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

— Confucius

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

— Confucius

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

— Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have…

— Confucius