Confucius Quotes

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie