Confucius Quotes

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The just man walks in his integrity

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

All the devils respect virtue.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.