Confucius Quotes

The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.

The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.