Every human being on the planet wants to be happy. Anything that they all desire is because they think that their desire will make them happy. Whether it is health, money, a loving relationship, material things, accomplishments, a job, or anything at all, the desire for happiness is the bottom line of all of them . But remember that happiness is a state inside of us, and something on the outside can only bring fleeting happiness, because material things are impermanent.
Unethical behaviour can bring temporary periods of pleasure in the form of wealth or putting down weaker persons or encroachment what is others and in many more such forms. But the final outcome of being unethical will be disastrous.
Permanent happiness comes from you choosing to be permanently ethical in every action of yours. When you choose to be ethical in every sphere of your life, then you attract all the happy things as well. The happy things are the icing on the cake, but the cake is ethics itself. Ethics does not always roar. Sometimes, ethics is that quiet voice that says, “You are on the correct path.”
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always truthful and conduct their lives in the highest form of ethical standards that has been prescribed.
Ethics are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. Every Rotarian in the society should be a role model and be considered as persons upholding the highest form of ethics in their lives, business and profession not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely ethical action.
Your life should not be focused on results. Your life must be really focused on the process of doing all the things you are doing ethically, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
If you focused on results, if it’s only about the ultimate results, you would be a failure in profession, you would be a failure in relationships, you would be a failure with your friendships and you would be a failure in life. Look at being ethical as an ongoing process.
Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ethical. The most important question is, “Are you always ethical?”
Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you who is embodiment of ethical behaviour in everyday life. Be that person the world would like to meet. Being Ethical will make it happen sooner than you think.
