1,153 Quotes by Confucius

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

A noble minded person is not an implement.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.