"Go before the people with your example,..." - Quote by Confucius

“A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.”

“It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.”

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”

“If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.”

“Leaders grow; they are not made.”

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

“A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.”

“Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

“From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.”