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I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens.

In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to loyalty - its importance for certain central human relations such as friendships, but also its corruptibility in the sense that loyalty could be invoked against other moral constraints: it sometimes function as something of a moral Trojan horse, undermining other moral considerations.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

Integrity needs no rules.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

I think I have a really good work ethic.

I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

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

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.

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.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

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.

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

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 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.