Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
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Famous Confucius Quotes
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.”
Source: Le Lun Yü en français
“The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”
“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it”
Source: The Analects
“He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.”
“I followed my heart without breaking any rules.”
Source: The Analects
“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”
“Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”
“Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.”
Source: Lunyu
“The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
“A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.”
“The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.”
Source: Confucian Analects
“Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.”
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
“To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness”
“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”