Quotes about Ethics
Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
— Albert Schweitzer
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
— Ayn Rand
Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.
— Billy Graham
As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.
— Clay Aiken
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
— Eleanor Roosevelt