Quotes About Ethics

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

To be is to do.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

What thou thyself hatest, do to no man.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.