Ethics Quotes · Page 16

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.

— Amy Adams

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

— Anthony Bourdain

“the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.”

— Victor Hugo

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

— Anonymous

“One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.”

— Aristotle

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

— Immanuel Hermann Fichte

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning…

— Baruch Spinoza

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

— Enda Kenny

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

— Michel de Montaigne

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

— John Harold

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

— Martin Luther

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

— Robert Andrews Millikan

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

— Victoria Beckham

[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a…

— Rick Santorum

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is…

— Simon Weston

We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of…

— Ellen Goodman

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,…

— Charles Darwin

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Conscience is the inner beauty.Let your conscience be your guide.Your conscience make you to live by choice, not by chance, to be…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we…

— Wadah Khanfar

Generally, I am just myself, a crazy John Belushi type. But I'm not comparing myself to him. I think I am against…

— Bobby Lee

Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our…

— Stephen Batchelor

“To argue against abortion on the grounds that it prevents beings of high intrinsic value coming into the world is implicitly to…

— Peter Singer

I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not…

— Carrie Underwood

To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all…

— James Martineau

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

— Anne Bradstreet

If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Budd Schulberg

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

— Pascal Bruckner

“A man without conscience is but a poor creature...”

— James Fenimore Cooper

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

— Anonymous

“Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.”

— Anonymous

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

— Albert Einstein