Change Confucius Quotes & Sayings

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it. — Confucius

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. — Confucius

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops. — Confucius

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility. — Meg Cabot

We tend to believe that to change the world, we have to think big. Confucius wouldn't dispute this, but he would likely also say. Don't ignore the small. Don't forget the "pleases" and "thank yous." Change doesn't happen until people alter their behavior, and they don't alter their behavior unless they start with the small. — Michael Puett

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth. — Christina Rossetti

No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are. — Confucius

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. — Confucius

The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid. — Confucius

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change. — Confucius

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. — Amy Poehler

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. — Confucius

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem. — Mark Doty

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. — Casey Kasem

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. — Oswald Chambers

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life — Confucius

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer. — Jeff Vespa

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue. — Confucius

She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same? — Kameron Hurley

You read all kinds of books and see all kinds of movies about the man who is obsessed and devoted, whose focus is a single solid beam, same as the lighthouse and that intense, too. It is Heathcliff with Catherine. It is a vampire with a passionate love stronger than death. We crave that kind of focus from someone else. We'd give anything to be that "loved." But that focus is not some soul-deep pinnacle of perfect devotion - it's only darkness and the tormented ghosts of darkness. It's strange, isn't it, to see a person's gaping emotional wounds, their gnawing needs, as our romance? We long for it, I don't know why, but when we have it, it is a knife at our throat on the banks of Greenlake. It is an unwanted power you'd do anything to be rid of. A power that becomes the ultimate powerlessness. — Deb Caletti

As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present ... Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass ... — Anthony De Mello

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. — Confucius

There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change. — Confucius

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom. — Confucius

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings. — Confucius

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. — Beatrice Wood

It was encouraging to see that she sometimes got things wrong. Tyler's persistence had nothing to do with the accident. She didn't seem to understand the appeal she held for the human boys at the high school. Did she not see the appeal she had for me, either? — Stephenie Meyer