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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

Honest people have no ethics

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve the environment not solely on the basis of satisfying human interests and not solely because we might attribute intrinsic value to the environment, but because the environment is something with which we can potentially enter into constructive relationship, as part of what makes us who we are or transform who we are and open us up to new interests.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

I'd rather be right than President.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

I do think that there is a very unclear level of conduct in the Trump administration. That's one reason you're seeing this among so many different secretaries. Again, Trump himself has been bending ethics rules left and right.

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.