Confucius Quotes - Page 8

• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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• He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.

  Confucius

  Night, Bed, Cookies

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• To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wisdom, True Knowledge

  "The Analects".

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• When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

  Confucius

  Mother, Father, Distance

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

  Confucius

  Reading, Humility, Thinking

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• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Education, Wise, Clever

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

  Confucius

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Motivation, Mistake

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

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• He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

  Confucius

  Love, Life, Family

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• Great is the man who can overcome the
  world, but greater still is the man who can
  overcome himself, for he will have the world
  spinning on the palm of his hand.

  Confucius

  Men, Hands, Overcoming

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• To know and not do, is to not yet know.

  Confucius

  Knows

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• What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.

  Confucius

  Hate, Behind You, Behinds

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• Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  Confucius

  Education, Kindness, Men

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Positivity, Chinese

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, Penguin

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• Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

  Confucius

  Want, Do Unto Others

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• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

  Confucius

  Hands, Giving, Rose

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• No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

  Confucius

  Lakes, Circles, Perfect

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• The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Goodness, Enjoy

  Confucius, Edward Slingerland (2003). “Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Chinese

  Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub

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• Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

  Confucius

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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