Quotes from Confucius

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Type: Philosopher
Category: Chinese Philosopher
Year of Birth: 551 BC
Year of Death: 479 BC
Nationality: Chinese 

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
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George Washington Carver Quotes

Type: Scientist
Category: American Scientist
Date of Birth: January 10, 1864
Date of Death: January 5, 1943
Nationality: American

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
George Washington Carver

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
George Washington Carver

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.
George Washington Carver

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver