What is Goodness?

When I began to read Confucius I thought that he was a very smart and clever person who had many great things to teach. Lessons that we all have to learn about. Books 4, 5 and 6 have something very important which is the definition of goodness. Since I was little, I have always asked myself and others: What is goodness? What makes a good person good? I have always got the same answer. Everyone has told me that goodness are the actions a good person commits, and that a good person is someone who is always doing the right thing, basically someone who is perfect. That's what everyone has always told me. But after I read these Books, I realized that goodness was something more besides the acts a good person commits. And a good person was something more than just someone who always does the right thing.
Book 4, 5 and 6 of Confucius talks about goodness. It talks on what goodness is, and what people are good and which are not. According to Confucius, a good person is someone who not only does always the right thing for oneself but the right thing for everyone. Also, a good person is always learning from others and their own mistakes and this way, they won't fall to committing them. And something very important good people have is that they are not good in order to receive something, but they are good because they know that's the right thing to do. "One who is Good sees as his first priority the hardship of self-cultivation, and only after thinks about results or rewards. Yes, this is what we might call Goodness."(Book 6 pg 17).
This shows that good people are the ones who are not seeking for a reward for what they do, they just do the right thing because they know it will make them better people. After knowing what Confucius says about a good person, I was kind of able to realize that in a way we are all good. Because being good doesn't means being perfect, it means caring for others and trying to always act the best for your own personal development without caring about the results or what you will receive by acting good.