Mason Cooley Quotes

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

The beauty of growing up in a coaching family, particularly one that isn't at the very highest level, is that you get to be in the gym - that's where you grow up.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.