Quotes About Ethics

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'

If character is destiny, the good are damned.