Quotes about Ethics
The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.
- Greg Laurie
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
- Confucius
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Booker T. Washington
Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
- James Hayford
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
- Roger Williams
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
- George Washington
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
- CS Lewis
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
- FF Bruce
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
- Cicero
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- Thomas Jefferson