Confucius Quotes

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Being humble matters.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

I was raised to always be humble.

My favourite virtue is not having any.

I'm the good guy, I'm a family guy.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

Do well by doing good.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.