Quotes About Ethics

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.