Confucius Quotes

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Is she kind as she is fair?

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Being a good person and fair person is very important in life, I think.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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

It is by doing good that we become good.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.