Quotes About Ethics

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

There is most joy in virtue when 'tis hardest won.

ìNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

The following are non-sequiturs: 'I am richer, therefore superior to you'; or 'I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you'.

Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

No Christian leader – no leader of any kind – is immune from the dangers of misuse of power and position.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk.