Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Be as you wish to seem.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Great men are sincere.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.