Quotes about Ethics
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
— AW Tozer
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
— Harry S. Truman
Integrity gains strength by use.
— John Tillotson
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
— Martin Luther
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
— Confucius
The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.
— George W. Bush
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.
— Albert Einstein
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
— Thomas Jefferson