Confucius Quotes About Success

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All quotes by Confucius: Achievement Acting Adversity Affairs Affection Age Anger Anxiety Appearance Army Art Attitude Being Happy Benevolence Birds Blame Books Boundaries Bravery Business Caring Change Character Charity Children Compassion Country Courage Crime Culture Dance Darkness Desire Determination Difficulty Dignity Doubt Duty Earth Economy Education Effort Enemies Ethics Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Faith Family Fathers Fear Feelings Focus Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Generosity Giving Giving Up Goals Goodness Graduation Gratitude Greatness Growth Happiness Hardship Harmony Hate Heart Heaven Helping Others Hills Home Honesty Honor House Human Nature Humanity Humility Ignorance Injury Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Journey Joy Judging Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Leadership Learning Life Lifetime Literacy Losing Love Loyalty Lying Making A Difference Martial Arts Math Military Mistakes Modesty Monday Money Moon Morality Morning Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Music Neighbors Not Giving Up Office Opportunity Overcoming Parents Passion Past Peace Perfection Perseverance Persistence Philosophy Planning Pleasure Politicians Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Pride Progress Prosperity Purpose Quality Reading Reflection Regret Resentment Respect Responsibility Revenge Rice Righteousness Running Sacrifice Science Self Awareness Shame Silence Simplicity Sincerity Son Sorrow Soul Spring Students Study Success Taoism Teachers Teaching Time Today True Friends True Love Truth Understanding Virtue Waiting War Warrior Water Wealth Winning Wisdom Work Worry Yoga Youth more...
  • The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

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

    Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148
  • He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

    Love  
    Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.18, Courier Corporation
  • When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  • Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

    "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.
  • If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

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

  • I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

    Love  
  • Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

    Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”
  • If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

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

  • He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

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

    Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

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

  • The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

  • The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

    Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides
  • I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

    Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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.

    As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.
  • A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

    Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

    Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”
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Confucius quotes about: Achievement Acting Adversity Affairs Affection Age Anger Anxiety Appearance Army Art Attitude Being Happy Benevolence Birds Blame Books Boundaries Bravery Business Caring Change Character Charity Children Compassion Country Courage Crime Culture Dance Darkness Desire Determination Difficulty Dignity Doubt Duty Earth Economy Education Effort Enemies Ethics Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Faith Family Fathers Fear Feelings Focus Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Generosity Giving Giving Up Goals Goodness Graduation Gratitude Greatness Growth Happiness Hardship Harmony Hate Heart Heaven Helping Others Hills Home Honesty Honor House Human Nature Humanity Humility Ignorance Injury Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Journey Joy Judging Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Leadership Learning Life Lifetime Literacy Losing Love Loyalty Lying Making A Difference Martial Arts Math Military Mistakes Modesty Monday Money Moon Morality Morning Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Music Neighbors Not Giving Up Office Opportunity Overcoming Parents Passion Past Peace Perfection Perseverance Persistence Philosophy Planning Pleasure Politicians Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Pride Progress Prosperity Purpose Quality Reading Reflection Regret Resentment Respect Responsibility Revenge Rice Righteousness Running Sacrifice Science Self Awareness Shame Silence Simplicity Sincerity Son Sorrow Soul Spring Students Study Success Taoism Teachers Teaching Time Today True Friends True Love Truth Understanding Virtue Waiting War Warrior Water Wealth Winning Wisdom Work Worry Yoga Youth

Confucius

  • Born: 551 BC
  • Died: 479 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher