Ethics Quotes
1384 quotes by 936 authors
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
— Aristotle
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
— Aristotle
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
— Isaac Asimov
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
— Kate Atkinson
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
— Richard Bach
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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
— Philip James Bailey
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale…
— Amy Adams
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What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his…
— Amy Adams
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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any…
— John Perry Barlow
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
— Henry Adams
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character…
— Bernard Baruch
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
— Jane Addams
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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
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own;…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
— Warren G. Bennis
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
— Ambrose Bierce
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