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Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep…

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In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by…
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or…
The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and…
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to…
You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it…
We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals…
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the…
Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get…
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should…

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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person… — Ezra Taft Benson
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson
In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or… — Price Pritchett
Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent… — Laurance Labadie
Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing. — Denis Waitley
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of… — Spencer W. Kimball
It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount… — Mark E. Petersen
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the… — Joseph Sobran
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. — Robert A. Heinlein
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? — Larry Wall

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