Quotes About Ethics

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.