Top 1200 Ethical Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.

Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so.

You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.

My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavior that is characteristic of friendship. Two people can engage in the very same behavior - visiting someone in hospital, for example - and yet only one of them might be doing so out of friendship; moreover, friends can be doing absolutely anything together, even quarrel or fight. That means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize a friendship simply on the basis of what people do.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.