Best 1285 quotes in «ethics quotes» category

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 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 don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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

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.

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

I'd rather be right than President.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

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

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 don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

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 your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its traits aren't positive in our lives. But there's one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

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.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

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

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.