Filial Piety Quotes

• There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

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  Confucius

  Thank You   Support   Parent  

  4273

• Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

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  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Children   Responsibility   Sometimes  

  4705

• When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

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  Laozi

  Country   Fall   Body  

  1774

• A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

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  Confucius

  Men   Roots   Good Man  

  3702

• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

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  Alan Dundes

  Children   Grandparent   Asian Culture  

  1989

• One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die

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  Kato Kiyomasa

  Loyalty   Military   Reading  

  3379

• The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

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  Edward Gibbon

  Animal   Law   Return  

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.86

  4291

• Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

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  Zengzi

  People   Heaven   Principles  

  4756

• The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

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  William Bartram

  Attachment   Faithful   Affection  

  William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.21, Courier Corporation

  4343

• A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

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  Confucius

  Home   Youth   Respectful  

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.6, BookCaps Study Guides

  690

• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

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  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty   Military   Mean  

  1314