Confucius Quotes

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

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

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

The just man walks in his integrity

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

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

Virtue is no empty echo.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.