Quotes About Ethics

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.