Greatest Confucius Quotes

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Oliver Goldsmith (The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith (Vol. 1 of 2))
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Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinozaโ€™s? Was his brain equal to Keplerโ€™s or Newtonโ€™s? Was he grander in death โ€“ a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race?
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Robert G. Ingersoll (About The Holy Bible)
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There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head.
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Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living)
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Manโ€™s greatest excuse to delay the inevitable.โ€ โ€œCan you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?โ€ โ€œIf you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.โ€ Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me.
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Krista Ritchie (Hothouse Flower (Calloway Sisters #2))
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.โ€ Confucius
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Shanna Hatfield (The Cowboy's Autumn Fall (Grass Valley Cowboys #4))
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Let us watch these mighty ones as they pass silently by. First, Orpheus, playing upon the seven stringed lyre of his own being, the music of the spheres. Then Hermes, the thrice greatest, with his emerald tablet of divine revelation. Through the shades of the past we dimly see Krishna, the illuminated, who on the battlefield of life taught man the mysteries of his own soul. Then we see the sublime Buddha, his yellow robe not half so glorious as the heart it covered, and our own dear Master, the man Jesus, his head surrounded with a halo of Golden Flame, and his brow serene with the calm of mastery. Then Mohammed, Zoroaster, Confucius, Odin, and Moses, and others no less worthy pass by before the eyes of the student They were the Sons of Flame. From the Flame they came, and to the Flame they have returned. To us they beckon, and bid us join them, and in our robes of self-earned glory to serve the Flame they love. They were without creed or clan; they served but the one great ideal. From the same place they all came, and to the same place they have returned. There was no superiority there. Hand in hand they labor for humanity. Each loves the other, for the power that has made them masters has shown them the Brotherhood of all life.
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Manly P. Hall (The Initiates of the Flame (Fully Illustrated))
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Our greatest strength lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Confucius
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All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind whether prophets such as Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad or non-prophets such as Confucius , Gautama, Buddha, Socrates, Kant, Tolstoy , and Martin Buber, covering a period from the sixth century BC up to the present ( Martin Buber died in 1965) have taught essentially the same morals. As distinguished from rules about social orders and ways of production , moral truths are constant. The reason for this lies in the fact that the riddle had been established at the moment of creation in the "prologue in heaven" in the act preceding the whole of human history. Intelligence, education, and experience do not in themselves help us approach or better understand all of that. Jesus pronounced his truth when he was a child and was slightly more than thirty when he was condemned. He needed neither knowledge nor experience for his great, capital truths about God and man because these truths could not be reached by knowledge or experience. Are they not "Hidden from the wise and the learned and revealed to the little ?
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Alija Izetbegoviฤ‡
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When asked the best piece of advice heโ€™d give a budding entrepreneur, his answer was, โ€œKnow there will be dark days. There will be more dark days than good days, but the few good days are really, really good!โ€ You will get knocked down. Know that itโ€™s okay. Itโ€™s okay that it hurts a bit, too. And know that itโ€™s okay to give yourself some recovery time. As Confucius said, โ€œOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.โ€ Donโ€™t worry about getting knocked downโ€”just try to reduce the time you stay there.
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Darren Hardy (The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride)
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On the relationship between hard work and success, it has been said: โ€œIf you want to be above ordinary people, you must be ready at all times to take arduous and tedious training as your greatest pleasure.ย 
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Adam Brown (China: A History of China and East Asia: Ancient China, Economy, Communism, Capitalism, Culture, Martial Arts, Medicine, Military, People including Mao Zedong, Confucius, and Sun Tzu [3rd Edition])
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Christ was a Jew, precisely that He might overcome the Judaism within Him, for he who triumphs over the deepest doubt reaches the highest faith ; he who has raised himself above the most desolate negation is most sure in his position of affirmation. Judaism was the peculiar, original sin of Christ; it was His victory over Judaism that made Him greater than Buddha or Confucius. Christ was the greatest man because He conquered the greatest enemy.
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Otto Weininger
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Donโ€™t force things, but this doesnโ€™t mean that you canโ€™t make a real effort.
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Patrick King (10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyโ€™s Greatest Thinkers)
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If a person adapts to the changes in life easily, that person will be happy;
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Patrick King (10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyโ€™s Greatest Thinkers)
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Remember, youโ€™re not doing nothingโ€”youโ€™re taking action through nonaction.
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Patrick King (10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyโ€™s Greatest Thinkers)
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Taoism shares quite a few similarities with Buddhism and Stoicismโ€”Buddhism is about releasing all attachments, where Stoicism is about acknowledging and growing from discomfort. Together, these philosophies create an incredibly resilient mind.
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Patrick King (10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyโ€™s Greatest Thinkers)
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๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์ž‘์—…์šฉ ๋กœํžˆํ”„๋†€ ๋ฌธ์˜ ์นดํ†กใ€AKR331ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆใ€RDH705ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€SPR331ใ€‘์œ„์ปคใ€SPR705ใ€‘ ๋กœํžˆํ”„๋†€๊ตฌ์ž… ๋กœํžˆํ”„๋†€ํŒ๋งค ๋กœํžˆํ”„๋†€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋กœํžˆํ”„๋†€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ๋กœํžˆํ”„๋†€ ๋ณต์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ The advice of the poor is not well received. Cervantes ์ข‹์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ•์„ ์–ป์œผ๋ ค๊ฑฐ๋“  ์ผ๋‹จ ์ข‹์€๋•…๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฐพ์œผ์„ธ์š” ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ์š” ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š”๊ฒƒ๋งŒํผ์€ ์ €ํฌ๋„ ๊ทธ์—๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ต์„ ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ˆ˜์ต๊ธˆ์€ ์ž‘์„์ง€๋ผ๋„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋งŒ์กฑ๊ณผ ํ–‰๋ณต๊ฐ์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ๋ถ„์˜ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ž๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋‹จ๊ณจ๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ์…”์…” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํด๋ฆญํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์…” ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ตฌ์š” 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€๋ฌธ์˜์ฃผ์„ธ์š” Trees that are well-branched and supported by pedestals grow well, but trees that are left alone grow randomly. The same is true of men, and those who hear and correct what others point out for their own faults develop as much. -Confucius When I hear the word of grief, I think that I immediately disobey me, but if I put up with it, it becomes a long blessing to my country. Han Visa To give sound advice, we must be great. But in order to accept the advice gracefully, you must be greater. McCorley I learned four sayings in my life. Never speak words that harm others. Do not give advice that no one accepts. Do not complain. Do not explain. -R.F. Scott When a tree follows the food line, it is straightened; when a man accepts impulse, it becomes holy. -Confucius When we are reluctant, we tend to be so violent that we give advice that is difficult for even ourselves. William Penn Those who do not listen to the advice of others are foolish, impossible to save. Gracia Take the advice of others. But don't give advice or say too often to your superiors or friends. -Confucius Good horses also need a whip. Sage needs advice too. Even a beautiful and witty woman can't make a room without a man. Jewish proverbs If a person makes a mistake, slow him down and point out his mistake. If you can't do that, scold yourself, or don't even scold yourself. Aurelius Many are advised, but only the wise see the virtues of advice. Publyrius Syrus Fools sometimes give good advice. -Gelius I didn't ask, but it's like spitting on one's face. Bong-woo's dory should be advised and corrected if a friend misbehaves. But if you do not accept the advice, you must stop. If you are bothered too much, you will dishonor yourself. Confucius said. Elementary School 'Spigot' and 'compassion' are two good advisers. The former makes laughter and loves life, while the latter makes tears and sacred life. Anatole France The greatest trust in man-to-person contact is the trust that gives and receives advice. -bacon Those who can love think very carefully about giving advice. When people come to consult with themselves on matters, they seem to be seeking some advice, but they are more likely to be grateful because they have listened to them. Because he helped him to pick up the problem that was buried inside, the problem became clear and he could come to some conclusions on his own. Those who listen well to others give advice. Alan Roy McGuinness No matter how good your advice is, do not follow any advice until you are sure you need it. -David Sibery Be honest and honest in your advice. -Cicero Do not speak long in any advice. Horatius Do not give advice before being asked. Erasmus Advice is like snow. It stays long when it comes down gently. And it g
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Collection of sayings about life and life
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Put your sails up and prepare them for action, but recognize that the wind will blow when it chooses to, not when you want it to.
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Patrick King (10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyโ€™s Greatest Thinkers)
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The best way for a person to live, according to Taoism, is to submit to whatever life brings and be flexible.
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Patrick King (10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyโ€™s Greatest Thinkers)