Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but they taught me a work ethic, that I had to toe the line, that I had to step up and do my work, and that we would stay until it was done, and that came from a devotion to making you the best person you can be. That's the take I have on Lydia. She knows her actions are firm and sometimes very harsh, but she also looks after them.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Life is the sum of your choices.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Morality is contraband in war.

Morality is not respectability.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

My view of ethics and of its priority is connected to my view that we are fundamentally relational beings - both the product of human interactions, as well as committed as part of the expression of our own humanity to various social involvements. I see ethics as having two places in the maintenance of these relational activities - first as providing the basic coinage of our interactions qua humans and second as mediating the various roles we assume as humans.