Quotes about Ethics

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

We know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.