The Impossibility of Leadership: “If You Cannot Rectify Yourself, How Rectify Others?”

By / / failure, hypocrisy, impossibility, leadership, self-rectification, The Analects, Zi Lu XIII, Zi Lu XIII Chapter 13
Confucius said: “If you cannot rectify yourself, how can you rectify others?”

If he cannot rectify himself, what has he to do with rectifying others?

不能正其身，如正人何？

Source: The Analects, Zi Lu XIII, Chapter 13

Author: Confucius

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