Confucius Quotes
Quotes by Confucius

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

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

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

You Quotes

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

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