Confucious Quotes

I love reading sayings and quotes. Lately, I have been reading some wise sayings by Confucious (551-479), who was a Chinese teacher and philosopher (and many more), from a comic book written by a popular Taiwanese cartoonist, Tsai Chih Chung (蔡志忠). When I was reading it, I felt like tearing up. I actually cried a little when there was a page concerning Confucious mourning for the death of his pupil, Yan Hui, who died at a young age. Anyway, I thought Confucious was indeed a wise man, and many of his inspirational sayings do apply well to our world. Here are a few quotes from Confucious which I really loved:

(I got some of these quotes from Brainyquotes and Goodreads.)

✰Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
✰Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
✰It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
✰A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
✰If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
✰Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
✰When anger rises, think of the consequences.
✰If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
✰Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
✰The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.
✰True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
✰Respect yourself and others will respect you.
✰To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
✰All people are the same; only their habits differ.
✰The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
✰By three methods may we learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
✰Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
✰Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge.