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Confucius Quotes - Page 24

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The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay.

The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

Life, Thinking, Gentleman

"The Analects of Confucius".

She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.

Men, Sorrow, Born

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

Love, Learning, May

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Life, Revenge, Justice

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

Watches, Action, Kind

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Lost, Labor

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

Moving, Hands, Law

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.

Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue

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

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Ruins, Virtue, Profession

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

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Love, Inspirational, Funny

"The Analects".

Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

Leader, Path

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

Different, Plans, Courses

James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.230

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Leadership, Order, People

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Family, Strength, Peace

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Food, Cutting, Cooking

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Wisdom, Real, Understanding

"The wisdom of Confucius".

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

Love, Inspirational, Funny

Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.190, Courier Corporation

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Grief, Mourning

Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

Knowing, Cowardice, Worst

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Dance, Men, Giving

place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

Spiritual, Children, Real

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

Honesty, Principles, Yoke

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

Spring, Heart, Men

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Revenge, Blessing, Boredom

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