QUOTES ABOUT ETHICS
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It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. 
-Martin Van Buren

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there
is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide
the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it
would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new
atmosphere. -Paul Hawken

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
-Marcus Aurelius

It’s no crime to steal from a thief.

You can have everything in life you want if you will only help enough
other people get what they want. -Zig Ziglar

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. -German Proverb

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the
people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please
them by doing what you know is wrong. -William J. H. Boetcker

From caring comes courage. -Lao Tse

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. -William Blake

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing
you'll have left is your character. -Vince Gill

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
-Erich Fromm

Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50%
envy. -Vittorio de Sica.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you
plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for
a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think
of it, ALWAYS. -Mahatma Gandhi

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of
justice. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in
disapproving of others.  

Do what you will but make sure you will it.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
-Thomas Fuller

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was
a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left
to speak up. -Martin Niemoeller

The men who try to do something & fail are infinitely better than
those who try to do nothing and succeed. 

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great. -Mark Twain

Of evil grain, no good seed can come. 

Words hurt more than swords.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 
-Friedrich Nietzsche

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give
out completes the circle and comes back to us. -Flora Edwards 

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who
take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there. -Indira Gandhi

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also
for what we do not do. -Moliere




The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he
is able to receive. -Albert Einstein

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-Albert Einstein

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-Jesse Jackson

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller

One does evil enough when one does nothing good. -German Proverb

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only
interests. -John Stuart Mill

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because
your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely
what others think you are. -John Wooden

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James

Man does not always live up to Humanity, but comes closer by trying. 
-David Welton

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
-Heinrich Heine

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness
gathers love.

Do not judge your friend until you stand in his place.

Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent
has taken the right side. -Baltasar Gracian

Joy comes not to him who seeks it for himself, but to him whoo seeks
it for other people. -H. W. Sylvester

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
-James Mackintosh

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than have them and
not deserve them. -Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain

Adam was but a human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple
for the apple's sake, he wanted it because it was forbidden. The
mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten
the serpent. -Mark Twain

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every
right that he claims for himself. -Robert Green Ingersoll

Charity sees the need, not the cause. -German proverb

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. -Erich Fromm

Character is not made in crisis - it's only exhibited. -Robert Freeman

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -Alex Hamilton

Be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi

Forgiveness is the scent an orchid leaves on the heel that has crushed
it.

Politicians, like underwear, should be changed often, and for the same
reasons.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own,
because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

If you're not a liberal when you're twenty, you have no heart. If
you're not a conservative when you're forty, you have no brain.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to
support the rights of people you don't agree with.
-Eleanor Holmes Norton

It's not dying for a faith that's hard. It's living up to it.
-W. M. Thackeray

A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying
it.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. -Dean Koontz

We are each of us angels with but one wing, and can only fly by
embracing each other. -Luciano Decrescenzo

That which is beautiful is not always good. But that which is good is
always beautiful.

Always forgive your enemies. That's what they hate most.

What comes around goes around.

I like to see a man pround on a place in which he lives. -A. Lincoln

Why do you need two coats when you have only one back? -Gypsy proverb

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society. -Krishnamurti

Together, everyone achieves more.

Priorities
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was,
the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the
world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.