ethical fulfillment Quotes

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.