Confucius Quotes - Page 16

• If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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  Wisdom, Art, People

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• Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

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  Wish, Do Unto Others

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• If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.

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  Trust, Leadership, Respect

  "The Analects".

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• When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

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• If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

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  Mistake, Life Mistakes, Great Mistakes

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• The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

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  Character, Men, Partisans

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• Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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  Integrity, Character, Mean

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• Time flows away like the water in the river.

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  Life, Rivers, Water

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• If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

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  Lost Friendship, Lost Friend, Reproof

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.128, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

  c.479 BC The Analects.

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• To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Keys, Understanding

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• Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

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  Heart, Kingdoms, Sincere

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

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  Inspirational, Together, Way

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• The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

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  Wise, Moving, Men

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• Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

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  Occupation, May, Fit

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• Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

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  Kindness, Should, Whole Life

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• Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

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  Worry, Failing, Acknowledge

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• In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

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  Home, Men, Faults

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects 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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• Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
  not what is bad.
  Petty people do the opposite.

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  Opposites, People, Petty

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• He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.

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  Thinking, Effort, Harmony

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• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

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  Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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• To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

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  Deep Life, Knows

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