Quotes About Ethics

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

Every person has the choice to contribute to or drain from this world.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.

Fight the good fight, not the bad one.

When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!

Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.

That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).

To misuse wealth is a great fault.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.