Quotes about Ethics
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
- Wendell Berry
The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
- Erwin McManus
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.
- Jimmy Carter
Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.
- Bill Clinton
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
- Martin Luther
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
- Mae West
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Marquis de Sade