Confucius Quotes, Speech Quotes, Action Quotes

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

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Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

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The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

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Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

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An angry person is always full of poison.

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In language clarity is everything.

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The funniest people are the saddest once

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Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

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All things are already complete in oneself.

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When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

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What is necessary is to rectify names.

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Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

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The more people know, the more they forgive.

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A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

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Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

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