Quotes About Ethics

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

The insolence of office.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

As Spinoza, or someone very much like him, once said . . .

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.