Quotes About Ethics

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

In action is the worst action of human beings!

Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.