Quotes About Ethic

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team.

If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don't believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it's probably just like a habit.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

An ethic unshaped by eschatology is neither Jesus' nor Christian.

In the mid-1990s, while serving as senior editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, I proposed a thought experiment to test whether Buddhism could spread around the globe. That test consisted of a single question: Did Buddhism have a teaching that was so universal it could pass quickly from person to person without getting stopped in its tracks, leaping across national, ethnic, economic, and even religious boundaries?

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

I learned my work ethic from the best. God and family first, then work hard at whatever I do, because someone once told me that the only difference between try and triumph is a little umph." Her

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

A marriage of commitment and knowledge produces dignified work.

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.