Confucius Quotes - Page 3

• Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

  Confucius

  Gratitude, Kindness, Express Yourself

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• roads were made for journeys not destinations

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  Journey, Made, Destination

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• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

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  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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  Positive, Forgiveness, Attitude

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• There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

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  Victory, Lessons, Defeat

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

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  Thinking, Speak, Reason

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• Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.

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  True Love, Love You, Judging

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• The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

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  Responsibility, Men, Virtue

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

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  Strong, Fall, Mean

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• Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

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  Education, Teacher, Powerful Weapons

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

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  Men, People, Progress

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• To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

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  Able, Faults, Virtue

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• He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

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  Life, Wisdom, Answers

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• The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

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  Men, Can Not

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• When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

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  Teacher, Select, I Can

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• Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

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  Purpose

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• The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

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  Doe, Crowds, Harmony

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• If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

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  Inspiring, Children, Years

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• A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

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  Views, Tree, Lions

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• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

  "Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives". Book by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, 1996.

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• When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Men

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

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  Success, Wisdom, Goal

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