Quotes About Ethics

the just reflections of conscience oftentimes snatch a man, especially a man of sense, from the arms of a mistress, as it did him at last, though on another occasion.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.

Ética para un nuevo milenio. Si

porque constituye el vínculo entre los sentimientos, el carácter y los impulsos morales.

Podríamos decir que quienes se hallan a merced de sus impulsos –quienes carecen de autocontrol– adolecen de una deficiencia moral porque la capacidad de controlar los impulsos constituye el fundamento mismo de la voluntad y del carácter. Por

Good work requires enthusiasm, ethics, and excellence.

Cualquiera puede enfadarse, eso es algo muy sencillo. Pero enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo. Aristóteles, Ética a Nicómaco.

Good work involves the intertwining of three features: excellence, engagement, and ethics. Good work is technically excellent work—people know what they're doing. It's personally engaging and meaningful. They want to do it. They look forward to going to work. They don't dread it. And it's carried out in an ethical way.

Aristotle put it, the rare skill "to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nichomachean Ethics

Una persona muy autoconsciente sabe adónde se dirige y por qué; así, por ejemplo, se mostrará firme al rechazar una oferta laboral que resulte tentadora desde un punto de vista económico pero no encaje con sus principios u objetivos a largo plazo.

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18 Those are more likely to be high-absorption callings: people love what they are doing. Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow.

enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo. Aristóteles, Ética a Nicómaco.

The first laws and proclamations of ethics—the Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments of the Hebrews, the Edicts of Emperor Ashoka, can be read as attempts to harness, subdue, and domesticate emotional life.

Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14

What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes?

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18

There is growing evidence that fundamental ethical stances in life stem from underlying emotional capacities

Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un "buen trabajo", una combinación entre la ética (es decir, lo que uno cree que le gusta) y aquello en lo que destaca (es decir, lo que realmente le gusta).

What you are about, is more important than who you are

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days. Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics, and health.

The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person." He