Ethics Quotes - Page 40

• I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  Victoria Beckham

  Believe, Hard Work, Kids

  "Victoria Beckham is ELLE’s March cover star". www.elle.com. January 29, 2013.

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• The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Clever, Lying

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• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

  William Blackstone

  Justice, Suffering, Innocence

  "Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries".

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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Robert Burns

  Honesty, Being Honest, Dare

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

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• You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

  Candace Bushnell

  Disappointment, Self, Work Ethic

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• It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Italo Calvino

  Communication, Voice, Stories

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, ch. 9, 1974.

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

  1865 The Duchess. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.

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• Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, People, Survival

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• There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

  Benjamin Carson

  Technology, Significant Things, Temper

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• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

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• The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Religion, Tragedy

  "Credo". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke (1991), later published in Arthur C. Clarke "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998" (p. 360), 1999.

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• He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Change, Integrity, Roots

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• Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

  Democritus

  Trust, Silly, Men

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• To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Lying, Self

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.108, Zola Books

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• Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Self, Anything Worth Having

  "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.

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• In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Latin, Successful

  1988 In the International Herald Tribune, 14 Dec.

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• One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

  Erich Fromm

  Sadness, Compassion, Curiosity

  ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

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• Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Success, Integrity

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• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Freedom, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• Morality is contraband in war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

  John W. Gardner

  Respect, Army, People

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• Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Integrity, Character

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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