Confucius Quotes

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Be as you wish to seem.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

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

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.