ethical journey Quotes

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.