Quotes About Ethos

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Conrad would never; it wasn't his style.

But Faiers had decided that you didn't have to be English to be 'English'. 'The actor James Stewart, for example, he was American, but he had Englishness. He didn't brag about himself. He wasn't pushy. He had one wife all his life. You could trust him with your wallet. That's English.

But his own interpretation is that the improvement in medical outcomes was brought about primarily by "a shift in clinicians' belief—by showing them that the rate of infection was not inevitable and could be controlled, in a way that appealed to their professional ethos as doctors and nurses.

I think business at all costs is just wrong. I think there are certain things that you just don't do, and that acting with integrity and decency in business to me is just a given. I simply don't compromise on those things.

it is less important where one lives than how one lives.

Ours is a culture that reveres the ethos of absolute frankness and elevates truth-telling to moral perfection. Other cultures believe that when everything is out in the open and ambiguity is done away with, it may not increase intimacy, but compromise it.

Those who follow a code are often respected and held in high esteem

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed.

I think you always take pride in how you play.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Eleven years in the league, I haven't had a dirty play. I haven't made a name in this league by playing that way.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

I will never disgrace the sacred ground of the octagon.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

At the level Neymar moves at, you do not change teams for money.