"The Analects of Confucius" says: A gentleman does not use words to promote others, and does not use people to waste words. The following is a collection of inspirational quotes from the Analects of Confucius that I carefully recommend for everyone. I hope it will be helpful to you.

Selected inspirational sayings from The Analects of Confucius

1. When making friends, keep your word.

2. People can promote Tao, but Tao cannot promote people.

3. A gentleman is superior and a villain is inferior.

4. A gentleman is ashamed of his words rather than his actions.

5. Making mistakes without correcting them is called making mistakes.

6. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.

7. If you use it, you will do it; if you leave it, you will hide it.

8. Be tireless in learning and tireless in teaching.

9. If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.

10. Think of righteousness when you see benefit, and give orders when you see danger.

Inspirational sayings and sayings in the Analects of Confucius

1. He who listens to the Tao and talks by the way, abandons the virtue.

2. If you can’t correct yourself, how can you correct others?

3. It is tolerable, but what is intolerable?

4. Stand tall at thirty, and not be confused at forty.

5. Therefore, if you know something new, you can become a teacher.

6. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time?

7. If a person has no faith, he doesn’t know what he can do.

8. If you look inward and don’t feel guilty, you will have nothing to worry about.

9. A gentleman is ill and has no reputation.

10. Those who have gone by cannot be admonished, but those who have come can still be pursued.

11. Gentlemen are poor, but villains are poor all the time.

12. My friends are always missed, my brothers are happy.

13. Lord, minister, father, son.

14. If there is a way in the world, you will see it; if there is no way, you will hide it.

15. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

16. Reviewing the past and learning the new can make you a teacher.

17. If you are an official and you are good at it, you will learn, and if you are good at learning, you will be an official.

18. The people can follow it, but they cannot know it.

19. Love wants you to live, evil wants you to die.

20. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither.

21. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.

22. It is a joy to have friends from far away.

23. Death has existed since ancient times, and people cannot stand without faith.

24. A gentleman seeks everything from himself, while a villain seeks everything from others.

25. The beauty of a gentleman is the beauty of being an adult. The evil of being an immature person.

26. If your parents are here, you will have to travel well if you don’t travel far away.

27. A gentleman is nothing more than strict about what he says.

28. If you don’t use three countermeasures to take an example, you will never recover.

29. If the punishment is not adequate, the people will be at a loss.

30. To be rich and noble through unrighteousness is like a floating cloud to me.

31. The Master taught four things: literature, conduct, loyalty, and trustworthiness.

32. If a person does not know something but is not stunned, he is not a gentleman.

33. A gentleman is not careful in comparing himself with others, while a villain is not careful in comparing himself with others.

34. A gentleman does not use words to promote others, nor does he use people to waste words.

35. Don’t worry about others but you don’t know yourself, and you don’t know others when you are worried.

36. It is difficult to have a full day without any intention.

37. It is inspired by "Poetry", established by etiquette, and achieved by music.

38. Zixia said: "Every villain's fault must be punished." ?

39. A gentleman is arrogant but not arrogant, and a villain is arrogant but not arrogant.