Quotes About Ethics

The Spartan boy and the fox?" "Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.

And conscience—his thinking was so black and white he thought I was going to hell for having premarital sex. It didn't cross his mind that throwing a water glass across the room at me when he'd found out I'd had premarital sex was not exactly heaven-bound behavior.

You're an asshole alive, you're still an asshole dead.

Do not be devilish.

Reject evil. Choose the good.

Don't make a deal with the devil.

try not just to become a person of success but rather a person of value.

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

Do what is right for the right reasons.

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.

you have to find the words to make it sound important

Good intentions aren't enough, you must take right actions.

The man who said no to sin, cheat, deceit, manipulation, wickedness, hatred, jealousy and pride, has said yes to greatness

If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?

Curing cancer affects good cells in short run too but makes a life flourish in long term. Curing corruption affects good people in short run too but makes a nation flourish in long term.

Professionals and good Samaritans, once be the gardener of the nation, would root up corruption.

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN

What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your life that's on the line.

If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere.