Confucius Quotes

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Policy sits above conscience.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

Do good: we will meet one another there.

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

Integrity is praised, and starves.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.