Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The superior man thinks always of virtue the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Confucius
Philosopher
Teacher
Writer
Zhongni
Confucio
Konfuzius
Kong Fuzi
Kongqiu
Kong Qiu
K'ung-fu-tzu
K'ung-tzu
Kongzi
K'ung Fu-tse
Kung Fu Tzu
Kung Fu-tse
Kongfuzi
Kong Fu Zi
Kungfutse
Virtue
Common
Inspirational
Comforting
Always
Superior
Men
Superiors
Thinking
Thinks
Standards
Comfort
More quotes by Confucius
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Confucius
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.
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
The superior person is calm and composed the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
Confucius
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Confucius
In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.
Confucius
It is better to play than do nothing.
Confucius
An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.
Confucius
The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.
Confucius
The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.
Confucius
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
Confucius
A good man will certainly also possess courage but a brave man is not necessarily good.
Confucius
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
Confucius
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
Confucius
A heart set on love will do no wrong.
Confucius
The man of humanity delights in mountains
Confucius
Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.
Confucius
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
Confucius
The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
Confucius
A gentleman can withstand hardships it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius
