Quotes About Ethos

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

Style of a bad bi..., money of a bad hustler.

I think you die the way you live.

Your culture is your brand.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

If I was playing for my local club I'd want to play in exactly the same way as if I was playing for England and, if that ever changes, it's probably time to stop.

The Republican ethos underlying these landmark provisions was aptly framed by the great abolitionist Republican, Frederick Douglass. Douglass said, "It is evident that white and black must fall or flourish together. In light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established—all distinctions, founded on complexion, and every right, privilege and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color."2

philosophy class while in college in Boston were the words of French biologist Jean Rostand: Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

One of the first tasks a writer faces is the need to form an ethos, a way of being in the world, that permits the writer to create and present to the world a dynamic speaking and writing self.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

The only currency one should have in life humility and Inspiration.

It was as clear a guiding ethos for his life as Trump seemed to have: hate should be a civic good.

As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice.

It's funny to me that when people fuck up, they think 'it was just business' is in any way a defense.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith even so is he.