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Confucius Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Life Quotes and Sayings

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

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

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin

The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer

As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung

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

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie