Lao Tzu Quotes

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

You just have to do what you know is right.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

I have to do what's right.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

The Line of righteousness and justice stretched forth over all merchants, and an exhortation unto all Friends and people whatsoever, who are merchants, tradesmen, husbandmen, or sea-men, who deal in merchandize, trade in buying and selling that ye all do that which is just, equal and righteous in the sight of God and man and that you use just weights and just measures.