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Ethics (25)

  1. Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. -Albert Einstein.
  2. A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
  3. We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. -Janet Holmes.
  4. 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 human morality. -John F. Kennedy.
  5. If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. -Henry Kravis.
  6. Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche.
  7. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde.
  8. In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. — Immanuel Kant.
  9. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them. - Charles Darwin.
  10. Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. - Ayn Rand.
  11. Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington.
  12. Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten. -Abraham Lincoln.
  13. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in. -President Lincoln.
  14. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. -Max Lucado.
  15. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
  16. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  17. It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. -Albert Einstein.
  18. If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance. -Cal Thomas.
  19. Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. -Isaiah the prophet.
  20. I like to see a man and women, too! proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so his place will be proud of him. -Abraham Lincoln.
  21. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. -Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  22. True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. - Brigham Young.
  23. A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. –Charles H. Spurgeon.
  24. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln.
  25. Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. - Valdemar W. Setzer quotes.

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