Mencius Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Mencius quote about:
-
“If the King loves music, it is well with the land.”
-- Mencius -
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”
-- Mencius -
“Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.”
-- Mencius -
“Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.”
-- Mencius -
“Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.”
-- Mencius -
“He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.”
-- Mencius -
“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.”
-- Mencius -
“The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.”
-- Mencius -
“A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.”
-- Mencius -
“The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.”
-- Mencius -
“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”
-- Mencius -
“Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.”
-- Mencius -
“If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.”
-- Mencius -
“By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.”
-- Mencius -
“The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.”
-- Mencius -
“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”
-- Mencius -
“Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.”
-- Mencius -
“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.”
-- Mencius -
“Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.”
-- Mencius -
“The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.”
-- Mencius -
“There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.”
-- Mencius -
“Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.”
-- Mencius -
“The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs. Having these Four Beginnings, but saying that they cannot develop them is to destroy themselves.”
-- Mencius -
“The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.”
-- Mencius -
“So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.”
-- Mencius
