Mencius Quotes

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

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

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

The just man walks in his integrity

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.