Quotes about Ethics
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
— William Henry Harrison
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a moral obligation.
— Dennis Prager
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
— Zig Ziglar
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
— George Washington
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
— Aristotle
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
— Joseph Addison
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
— Samuel Johnson
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
— Thomas Jefferson
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
— Epictetus