"If one leads the people with governmental measures and constrains them through punishment, the people will avoid punishments but lack a sense of shame; if one leads them through virtue and constrains them through ritual, the people will have a sense of shame and moreover become good."
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"The superior man thinks always of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort."
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."