Category Quotations

Confucius says: “Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow – therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing

Confucius says: “Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.”

Confucius says: “To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”

Confucius says: “A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.”

Confucius says: “Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.”

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

Confucius says: “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 says: “The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”

Confucius says: “Never tire to study. And to teach to others.”