Quotes About Ethos

he had had an offer for me to do television commercials for an organization that sold margarine. "I know this isn't the kind of thing you had in mind," he pointed out, "but if a conservative firm feels that you can sell their

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

Good intention is even better than the best action, but both are one and the same in the life of a positive person.

The personality has got nothing to do with a person's dress, jewelry and face but how one could impress others with only own attitude , behaviour and, most importantly, character.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to.

SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.

I don't model unless I think the project is cool, and I don't put my name behind something that I don't genuinely believe in.

In order to have your best good guy, you have to be that bad guy.

Being a 'legend' doesn't make you a good person.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather than in the hands of one gatekeeper.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

the very word for matter is derived from the same root as mother-in Latin, the corresponding words are materia and matet-and (as discussed in Chapter 3), the whole ethos of materialism is permeated with maternal metaphors.

like the culture developed by Coach Steve Kerr for my beloved Golden State Warriors. Even though he helms a team, Steve believes that having good people is more important that just having good basketball players; he understands that players come and go, but the ethos on the court gets passed down from one game and one season to another. The best teams play together like a family who trust one another to have their back.

If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life?

it will help you a great deal to keep the gods in mind as well. What they want is not flattery, but for rational things to be like them. For figs to do what figs were meant to do—and dogs, and bees Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and people.