The best Quotes by Confucius

The best Quotes by Confucius

Kong Fuzi (551 - 479 BCE), commonly Latinized as Confucius, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, remaining influential across China and East Asia to this day.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Objectives Motivation

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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Beauty Appearance

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Beginning Motivation

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.

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If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

If you dream something, it might happen. If you never dream it, it will never happen.

Bruce Dickinson

Dreaming Objectives

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

Alice In Wonderland

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She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty Appearance

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Appearance Poems

Come in close, because the more you think you see, the easier it'll be to fool you.

Thaddeus Bradley in Now You See Me

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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

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Beginnings can be painful. But that doesn't mean they're bad.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

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Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Love Soul Friendship

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

Big results require big ambitions.

Ambition Motivation

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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