Quotes about Ethics
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
- Confucius
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.
- Jon Gordon
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth
- Jon Gordon
of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.
- Jonathan Edwards
What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.
- Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
- Jonathan Edwards
7. Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
- Jonathan Edwards
A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.
- Jonathan Edwards
most of the duties incumbent on us, if well considered, will be found to partake of the nature of justice.
- Jonathan Edwards
For the very notion of hardness of heart implies moral inability.
- Jonathan Edwards
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus