Quote by Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms o

Summary

This quote emphasizes the importance of thinking long-term and prioritizing sustainable actions for the future. It suggests that a person's mindset should shift from immediate gratification towards investing in lasting change. Planting a seed signifies taking small steps to initiate growth and development. Planting trees suggests taking actions that will have a positive impact over a longer period. However, the ultimate goal should be teaching and empowering the people, as this is the most transformative and influential way to ensure a better future for generations to come.

Topics

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was ofte

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Poetry Woman Anonymous

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surpri

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Charles de Gaulle

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Wome

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, h

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.

Henry Ward Beecher

Coffee (or Tea)

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

But while we can never predict where events will take us or

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weigh

Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

William Shakespeare

Beauty Appearances Falsehood Ornament Pretense

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils fo

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and libe

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow