Clarence Edwards > Clarence's Quotes

“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

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
― Confucius

“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”
― Confucius

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”
― Confucius

“The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
Those that bad people make are upon others.”
― Confucius

“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness”
― Confucius

“If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.”
― Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

“Don't use cannon to kill musquito.”
― Confucius

“Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.”
― Confucius

“Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.”
― Confucius

“Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”
― Confucius

“Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.”
― Confucius

“Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.”
― Confucius

“There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order”
― Confucius

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
― Confucius

“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.”
― Confucius

“I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.”
― Confucius

“Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established”
― Confucius

“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
― Confucius

“He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him”
― Confucius, The Analects

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”
― Confucius, Analects Of Confucius

“He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.”
― Confucius

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”
― Confucius

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

“The cautious seldom err.”
― Confucius

“Never tire to study. And to teach to others”
― Confucius

“Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.”
― Confucius, The Analects