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Quotes About Ethic

When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don't need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.
~ James C. Collins
When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance. Technology
~ James C. Collins
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
~ Carol Gilligan
We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.
~ Gordon Gee
As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.
~ Ray Winstone
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It is inexcusable to refuse to work, to work slackly or perversely, or to mar the work of others.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
~ Thomas Dekker
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
~ James Young
Obviously, there are nights in any job when you don't want to be there, but that's when the pride factor comes in.
~ Robert Parish
Part of the whole capitalist ethic is that the only thing that matters is how much money you make tomorrow: that's the crucial value of the system, profit for tomorrow. Not just profit, but the bottom line has to look good tomorrow. And the result is that planning for the future, and any kind of regulatory apparatus that would sustain the environment for the long-term, become impossible?and that means the planet is going to go down the tubes very fast.
~ Noam Chomsky
If our father had had his say, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
~ Norman Maclean
The God who impoverished himself is also the God of abundance, and somehow, perhaps at times nonsensically, Christians are called to live out of an ethic not of scarcity but of abundance—an abundance that extends both to the homeless neighbor and to the artist neighbor. . .
~ Lauren Winner
A certain 'spiritual' ethic endures that would have us deny our physical selves. The reality is that the body is nothing but physical soul.
~ Laurence Galian
It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
~ Charles Dickens
each individual should do his duty, regardless of consequences. We know the right thing to do, but we do not know the consequences of doing the right thing. Thus one should act according to knowledge of duty, not conjectures about consequences. One should do one's duty to the utmost and let the, gods sort out the results. And I believed that my duty is to fight That is the ethic of a movement that can save the world.
~ Greg Johnson
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
~ Grover Cleveland
Guardiola has taken certain areas to another level – such as pressing the ball – and Barcelona's disciplined style of play and work ethic have become a trademark of all his teams.
~ Guillem Balagué
Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall inherit the earth.
~ James Hilton
Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need in our day to mine the church's social teaching on solidarity.
~ Blase J. Cupich
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
~ Umberto Eco
Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There was no cultural or social ethic behind it. For me, it was like selling out. I was the only one selling out. The rest enjoyed doing what they were doing.
~ Grace Slick
Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they've sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people - but they also stay out of each other's business.
~ Marcus Sakey