Quotes about Ethics
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
- John Wooden
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.
- Ellen White
As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.
- Ellen White
We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.
- Ellen White
They delighted in destroying the life of animals; and the use of flesh for food rendered them still more cruel and bloodthirsty, until they came to regard human life with astonishing indifference.
- Ellen White
Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!
- Ellen White
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
- Ellen Glasgow
When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.
- Barbara Brown Taylor