5 Main Virtues From Confucius To Lead a Successful Life
#3. Trustworthiness — 信 (xin)
Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher, teacher was born on September 28, 551 BC. He was regarded as one of the wisest sage for many people in East Asia.
Confucius’ teachings stressed personal exemplification over certain rules of behaviors. He is considered the most important thinker in East Asian history.
If you’d like to lead a successful life, it is important so start working first on the basics — our own characters. It would be wise to adopt these five integral virtues suggested by Confucius. When you have these 5 virtues down, doesn’t matter where you’ll end up with, you can live happily and successfully.
1. Benevolence — 仁 (ren)
Benevolence is an act of kindness towards ourselves and others without expecting to get anything in return.
Confucius defined benevolence as “wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.” Confucius also said, “Benevolence is not far off, for those seek it has already found it.”
In other words, if we improve ourselves, we are likely to help others improve. If we always act with benevolence and practice it in our…
