Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. — Confucius
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.
From James Legge, Analects VII (PD)
More from Confucius
— ConfuciusTo know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
— ConfuciusIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
— ConfuciusLearning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
— ConfuciusOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.