Confucius Quotes - Page 20

• The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

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  Injury, Economy

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• Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

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  Wise, Men, Waste

  "Lun yü in Chinese, English, Malay, Tamil".

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• The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

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  Men, Purpose, Way

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• Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

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  Character, Culture, Music Is

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• If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

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  Loyalty, Mistake, Gentleman

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• He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

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  Love, Life, Family

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• True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

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  Knowing, True Wisdom, Knows

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• He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.299, Courier Corporation

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• The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

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  Men, Perfect, Wish

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1967). “Li chi: book of rites: An encyclopedia of ancient ceremonial usages, religious creeds, and social institutions”

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• Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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  Leadership, Philosophical, People

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Liberating Faith : Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom". Book by Roger S. Gottlieb, 2003.

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• A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

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  Men, Intelligence, May

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

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  Snow, Complaining, Neighbor

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• Have no friends not equal to yourself.

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  Friendship, Positive, Patience

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

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  Hundred, Testicles, Women Bashing

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• The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

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  Distance, Men, Space

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

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  True Knowledge, Knows, Limitation

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• Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

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  Order, Perfection, Heaven

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

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  Mean, Men, Way

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.431, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

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  Men, Knowing, Worry

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• If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

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  Want, Ifs

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• The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

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  Giving Up, Character, Men

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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