Quotes from Confucius

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

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

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

The cautious seldom err.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

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

Learning without thought is labor lost.