Confucius

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart. "

Confucius

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

Confucius

"When anger rises, think of the consequences. "

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

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Confucius

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

Confucius

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. "

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. "

Confucius

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. "

Confucius

"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. "

Confucius

"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. "

Confucius

" To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. "

Confucius

"The cautious seldom err."

Confucius

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."

Confucius

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Confucius

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius

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

Confucius

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays. "

Confucius

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

Confucius

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

Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. "

Confucius

"You cannot open a book without learning something."