Confucius Quotes

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

This is what I love about people! You meet people outside of the business, they'll tell you the truth.

I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.

I try to be as good of a person as I can be. I try to be a generally kind person.

I think I tried to improve as a person, as a brother, as a son, as a friend every day.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

Every day, I will try to be the best husband, dad, and friend I can be.

My grandfather played a big part in raising me, and he taught me how to be a gentleman. Since he first told me those types of things when I was 13 years old, I've taken all those types of lessons from him to heart. I'd like to keep that with me.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.