Ethic Quotes

281 quotes by 244 authors

I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of… — Kevin Costner
A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation… — Larry J. McKinney
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome
The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past… — Joe Rogan
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been… — Hunter S. Thompson
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as… — C.S. Lewis
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon. — Thomas Friedman
I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. — Janeane Garofalo
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and… — Henry Louis Gates
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from… — Jonny Greenwood
For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the… — Robert Griffin III
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic. — Elvis Costello
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British. — Simon Cowell
Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is… — Jim DeMint
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,… — Umberto Eco
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. — Carrie Fisher
If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with. — Joanne Harris
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others… — Audrey Hepburn
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

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