Quotes on Confucian

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

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

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.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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

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

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

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

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.