Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.Collection: Travel
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.Collection: Great
When anger rises, think of the consequences.Collection: Anger
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.Collection: Music
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.Collection: Government
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?Collection: Fear
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.Collection: Courage
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.Collection: Change
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.Collection: Men
A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.Collection: Men
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.Collection: Wise
He who fails to prepare, prepares to failCollection: Trying
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.Collection: What Matters
Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.Collection: Simple
I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.Collection: Gratitude
Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.Collection: Practice
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.Collection: Love
roads were made for journeys not destinationsCollection: Journey
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.Collection: Inspirational
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.Collection: Able
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.Collection: Love
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.Collection: Math
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.Collection: Roots
Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.Collection: Funny
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.Collection: Motivational
Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you haveCollection: Doe
Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.Collection: Badass
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.Collection: Orchids
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.Collection: Squares
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?Collection: Vices
If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.Collection: Names
Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at handCollection: Future
A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.Collection: Men
Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.Collection: Afar
In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.Collection: Teaching
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.Collection: Honesty
Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.Collection: Mistake
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?Collection: Men
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.Collection: Three
Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.Collection: Learning
Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.Collection: Blow
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.Collection: Teacher
All men are born good.Collection: Men
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.Collection: Book
The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.Collection: Mean
If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.Collection: Mind
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.Collection: Forgiveness
Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.Collection: Love