Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

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

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

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

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

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.

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

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

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 huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

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

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

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

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

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

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

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. 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.

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.

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.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

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.

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

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

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

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