Quotes About Ethos

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

if you surrounded murder with enough forms and procedures, if you could convince yourself that it was an absolute necessity, then ultimately it would not be murder at all.

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique that is. As scandal-ridden as we may be, we start with a basic expectation that it's not your job in public service to use it to help your friend.

If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that you play the game. I want to play beautiful football. That's our purpose: to go out and play the game at the highest level, play it the right way.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

A footballer isn't a devil or a saint.

Our culture is the foundation for our company.

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

Too frequently, we hear about coaches and programs willing to win at any cost.

The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live as warriors - their willingness to die for the sake of what they believe in - is quite shocking to us, and it's fascinating to see.

We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'

'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.