1. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

- Confucius

2. Study the past if you would define the future.

- Confucius

3. The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

- Confucius

4. The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.

- Confucius

5. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

- Confucius

6. Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

- Confucius

7. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

- Confucius

8. When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

9. He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

- Confucius

10. Things that are done, it is needless to speak about…things that are past, it is needless to blame.

- Confucius

11. With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow – I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

- Confucius

12. He who excels in study can follow an official career.

- Confucius

13. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius

14. Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

- Confucius

15. Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

- Confucius

16. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

- Confucius

17. Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

- Confucius

18. To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

19. If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

- Confucius

20. The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

- Confucius

21. Isn’t it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn’t he a sage?

- Confucius

22. To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

- Confucius

23. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

24. Review the old and deducing the new makes a teacher.

- Confucius

25. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

- Confucius

26. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

- Confucius

27. When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

- Confucius

28. It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

- Confucius

29. He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

- Confucius

30. A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

- Confucius

31. They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

- Confucius

32. Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

- Confucius

33. If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

- Confucius

34. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

- Confucius

35. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

- Confucius

36. Respect yourself and others will respect you.

- Confucius

37. Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

- Confucius

38. To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

39. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

40. A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

- Confucius

41. We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

- Confucius

42. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

- Confucius

43. Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.

- Confucius

44. In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of.

- Confucius

45. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

- Confucius

46. He who will not economize will have to agonize.

- Confucius

47. The object of the superior man is truth.

- Confucius

48. It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

- Confucius

49. The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

- Confucius

50. The cautious seldom err.

- Confucius

51. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

- Confucius

52. Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

- Confucius

53. When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

- Confucius

54. The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

- Confucius

55. It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

- Confucius

56. Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

- Confucius

57. Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

- Confucius

58. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

- Confucius

59. Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

- Confucius

60. The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

62. Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

- Confucius

63. Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.

- Confucius

64. Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

- Confucius

65. When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

- Confucius

66. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

- Confucius

67. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

- Confucius

68. To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

- Confucius

69. To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

- Confucius

70. Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

- Confucius

71. The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

- Confucius

72. Study the past if you would divine the future.

- Confucius

73. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

- Confucius

74. To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

- Confucius

75. The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

- Confucius

76. To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

- Confucius

77. Isn’t it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

- Confucius

78. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

- Confucius

79. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

- Confucius

80. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

81. If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

- Confucius

82. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

- Confucius

83. Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

- Confucius

84. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

- Confucius

85. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

86. There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

- Confucius

87. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

- Confucius

88. Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

- Confucius

89. Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

- Confucius

90. When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

- Confucius

91. Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

- Confucius

92. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

94. When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

- Confucius

95. It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

- Confucius