So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“ Ben Franklin said: "Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy wealthy and wise" Lately I have read… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated… — Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short,… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life.… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool. With everything he's done and how professional he's remained through it… — Dale Earnhardt, Jr Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Daddy says every person on earth is born iwth a device that lets them know right from wrong. Some call it their… — Toni Teepell Copy Share Image
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It… — Lenora Crichlow Copy Share Image
To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you lie, I am your guilt. When you cheat, I am your conscience. When you deny, I am your truth. When… — Ian Willis Copy Share Image
I think that it's the passion for the game that we have and just the work ethic. We try to work as… — Malcolm Subban Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image