Complex lifestyle and leads us to get on the correct path
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Virtue or sila at the very minimum is the five precepts. This is the minimum practice of Buddhism.
The five precepts (and other precepts) are undertaken as a training on a "try your best basis". If you lapse, you should try harder next time, without feeling remorse. Striving for perfection in the practice of virtue or sila is not required for lay persons.
Further practice of virtue is by the eight precepts (usually in the context of uposatha), ten precepts (as a novice monk), Right Livelihood, Right Speech and Right Action.
Right Livelihood for laypersons is explained in AN 5.177.
Further information can be found in AccessToInsight's virtue (sila) page, including sutta verses.
To practice virtue (sila), the first step is to vow to undertake the training of the five precepts, and then practice them with heedfulness (appamada).
The second step is to adopt this thinking from AN 5.57:
“And for the sake of what benefit should a woman or a man, a householder or one gone forth, often reflect thus: ‘I am the owner of my kamma, the heir of my kamma; I have kamma as my origin, kamma as my relative, kamma as my resort; I will be the heir of whatever kamma, good or bad, that I do’? People engage in misconduct by body, speech, and mind. But when one often reflects upon this theme, such misconduct is either completely abandoned or diminished. It is for the sake of this benefit that a woman or a man, a householder or one gone forth, should often reflect thus: ‘I am the owner of my kamma, the heir of my kamma; I have kamma as my origin, kamma as my relative, kamma as my resort; I will be the heir of whatever kamma, good or bad, that I do.’
The third step is to understand more deeply from the Dhamma on Right Livelihood, Right Speech and Right Action, and practise them with heedfulness (appamada).
Also, please see this answer for the question "Are the Five Precepts a gradual training?".
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