Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Duty is what one expects from others.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Ethics is for people with full bellies.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Ethics are more important than laws.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

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.

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

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.