Quotes About Ethics

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Dietrich would never do that

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Virtue is its own reward.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.