Confucius Quotes

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments?

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

All you can do is the best you can do.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

I try to do my best.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I do my best, and that's all I can do.