Confucius Quotes

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Don't worry about people knowing you. Make yourself worth knowing.

Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.