Confucius Quotes

I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.