Confucian Quotes

• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  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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• The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

  Confucius

  Men, Safety, Chinese

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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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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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

  Confucius

  Stars, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  c.479 BC The Analects.

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Mean, Exercise

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Educational, Past, Study

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Men, Fire

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Wise, Men

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

  Confucius

  Wise, Mistake, Failure

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

  Confucius

  Successful, Intelligent, Chinese

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

  Confucius

  Men, Parent, Mind

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.7, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

  Confucius

  Men, Safety, Doe

  Confucius, Jing Shi (1968). “The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism”

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• I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

  Confucius

  Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.18, Open Road Media

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