1,153 Quotes by Confucius

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides to go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop.

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

Virtue is like a polar star, which keeps its place, and all stars turn towards it.