Quotes about Ethics
Your tongue follows correctness; your heart follows truth.
- Dallas Willard
One has to feel strong revulsion toward the wrong feeling one now has or is likely to have and at the same time strong attraction to good feeling that one does not now feel.
- Dallas Willard
Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?
- Dallas Willard
What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible
- Dallas Willard
Such planning should include identifying the things in your life that you believe trouble Jesus—impatience, overeating, lying, or whatever it may be for you.
- Dallas Willard
Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not.
- Dallas Willard
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.
- St. Augustine
Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Psalm 15:5
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.
- John Maxwell
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
- Aristotle
Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.
- St. Francis Of Assisi