Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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
Deeds
Words
Would
Match
Gentleman
Ashamed
More quotes by Confucius
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
Confucius
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Confucius
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
Confucius
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
Confucius
To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Confucius
First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.
Confucius
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
Confucius
One joy dispels a hundred cares.
Confucius
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
Confucius
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
Confucius
Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.
Confucius
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.
Confucius
I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.
Confucius
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
Confucius
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.
Confucius
A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
Confucius
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
Confucius
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.
Confucius
The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
Confucius
