Confucius quotes

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
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Motivational Long You Matter
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
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Motivational Excellence Win Will
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
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Learning Great Think Who Lost
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
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Brainy Remember See Forget
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
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Life Simple Complicated Really
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
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Wisdom Goals Action Adjust Cannot
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
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Beauty Everything Everyone Sees
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
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Love Good Hate Difficult
"To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge."
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Knowledge You True Know
"The object of the superior man is truth."
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Truth Man Superior Object
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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Change Men Never Only
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
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Knowledge Ignorance Real Know Extent
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
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Better Without Pebble Than
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
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Heart You Travel Go
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
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Wisdom Courage Men Compassion Three
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
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Wisdom Experience Reflection Three
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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You Yourself Want Done
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
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You Yourself Desire Others Impose
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
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Man Speech Superior Actions
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
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Wisdom Experience Reflection Three
"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
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Anger Think Consequences Rises
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
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Learning You Something Cannot
"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."
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Man Never Sword Dance
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
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Man Business Will Right Superior
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
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Strength Home Integrity Nation
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
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Man Action Superior He
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
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Motivational Good Man World Thoughts
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
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Good Myself Teacher I Am
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
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Friendship Man Better Never
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
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Country Poverty Wealth Something
"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."
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Future You People Plant Think
"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."
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Courage See Right Cowardice
"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."
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Courage Want See Right
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
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Gentleman Words Ashamed Deeds Match
"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."
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Humility Foundation Solid Foundation
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
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Brainy Remember See Know
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
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Learning Lost Labor Without Thought
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
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Success Failure Preparation Without
"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
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Future You Past Divine
"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
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Silence True Friend Never True Who
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
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Alone Will Stand Who
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
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Wisdom Happiness Change Who
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
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Kindness Soul Circumstances Practice
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
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Man Men Ability Superior He
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
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Friendship More Friends Shameful
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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Respect Men Feelings Without
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
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Life Work Mechanic Expectations
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
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Good Me You Age
"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
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Fall Go Wrong Beyond Short

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