Confucian Quotes - Page 2

• Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Fine Words, Vices

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117

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• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

  Steve Berry

  Moving Forward, Past, Study

  Steve Berry (2010). “The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape): A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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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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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  Confucius

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

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• Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

  Confucius

  Hands, Wish, Confucianism

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.57, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.

  Marianne Williamson

  Christian, Monopoly, Jew

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Buddhist, Writing, Giving

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• In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.' I urge everyone to reflect deeply on these words, as simple as they are profound.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Character, Home, Heart

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• A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

  Richard Lamm

  Law, Minorities, Might

  "Two Wands" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

  Ezra Pound

  Taken, Genius, Way

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• The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

  Robin Morgan

  Women, Chinese, Slave

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  "North Korea racist, not communist, says author". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

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• I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Buddhist, Diversity

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• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.

  Seungsahn

  Christian, Buddhist, Thinking

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