Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Ethics

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards . . . the ethics of excellence.
Price Pritchett (b.1941) American Management Consultant

When it comes to practicing good ethics, saying no to a vice is not good enough. A quality life is never achieved by focusing on the elimination of what is wrong. True success requires you to focus your mental, emotional, and spiritual energies on pursuing that which is right and good. Trying to become virtuous merely by excluding vice is as unrealistic as trying to cultivate roses simply by eliminating weeds.
Gary Ryan Blair

The ethics of excellence require a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment, do you mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk . . . and lose the bet?
Price Pritchett (b.1941) American Management Consultant

The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
Horace Greeley (1811–72) American Journalist, Author

It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel
George Moore (1852–1933) Irish Writer

True morality consists no in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it… we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Dissident Novelist

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–76) Russian Anarchist Philosopher

The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.
Price Pritchett (b.1941) American Management Consultant

Sorrow breaks season, and reposing hours; makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) British Crime Writer

Because you’re able to do it and because you have the right to do it doesn’t mean it’s right to do it.
Laura Schlessinger (b.1947) American Radio Talk-Show Host, Author

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Actually, there is only one “first question” of government, and it is “How should we live?” or “What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?”
George Will (b.1941) American Columnist, Journalist, Writer

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all morality.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its fact toward God; morality is religion with its fact toward the world.
Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action – what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett (b.1941) American Management Consultant

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

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