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Confucius Quotes - Page 26

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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

People, Force, Certain

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Gentleman, Desire, Speech

Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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

Life, Philosophical, Fate

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

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Character, Men, Moral

Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

Two, Rabbits

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

Motivational, Heart, Men

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Nature, Culture, Pedants

"Lun Yü".

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Love, Mean

Confucius (1998). “论语”

Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.

Hatred, Demand

I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

Men, Goes On, Deeds

Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Beauty, Wise, Names

Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

Make fair agreements and stick to them

Agreement, Sticks, Fairs

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

Persistence, Men, Physicians

All things are already complete in oneself.

All Things, Oneself

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

Inspirational, Feet, Jade

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Heart

Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

The man of humanity delights in mountains

Men, Humanity, Mountain

Confucius, Chichung Huang (1997). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.84, Oxford University Press on Demand

From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

Ambition, Men, Example

Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1142, Delphi Classics

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

Greatness, Practice, Annoyed

"The Analects". Book by Confucius (Chapter I),

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Names, Language, Rectification

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

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

Errors, Reform, May

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

Men, Desire, Doe

James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

Life, Morning, Regret

James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.135

How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

Spiritual, Looks, All Things

Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.261

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