Confucius Quotes

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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 superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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

I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known

When the Way prevails under Heaven, then show yourself; when it does not prevail, then hide. When the Way prevails in your own land, count it a disgrace to be needy and obscure; when the Way does not prevail in your land, then count it a disgrace to be rich and honoured.

The goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Đừng chỉ trích mái nhà hàng xóm nhiều tuyết trong khi cửa nhà mình không sạch.

To see high merit and be unable to raise it to office, to raise it but not to give such promotion precedence, is just destiny.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkeness

When anger arises, think of the consequences

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it.

德之不修，學之不講，聞義不能徒，不善不能改，是吾憂也。