Quotes about Ethics
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.
- John Wooden
Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.
- Zig Ziglar
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
- Confucius
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
- Confucius
If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.
- Confucius
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
- St. John Chrysostom
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
- John Knox
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
- Edmund Hillary
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- Albert Einstein
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
- St. Basil