Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
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
Self
Turn
Teamwork
Looks
Within
Reflection
Good
Turns
Awareness
Spiritual
Meet
Inspirational
Leadership
Someone
Thoughts
Confucianism
Better
Equal
Examine
Look
Becoming
Reflecting
More quotes by Confucius
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
Confucius
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
Confucius
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them he opens the way but does not take them to the place.
Confucius
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud the small man is proud but not dignified.
Confucius
If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
Confucius
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
Confucius
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
Confucius
It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife
Confucius
A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
Confucius
Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
Confucius
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
Confucius
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
Confucius
The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.
Confucius
I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?
Confucius
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
Confucius
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius
Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Confucius
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
Confucius
Wisdom delights in water love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring love is quiet. Wisdom is merry love grows old.
Confucius