Ethics QuotesEthics quotes in this collection are not always about right and wrong. Very often ethical dilemmas force us to choose between right and right. Clear cut answers are rare. It all boils down to making choices with integrity, standing by our values, and treating others as we desire to be treated ourselves. Action indeed is the sole medium of expressing for ethics. Jane Addams If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas Alva Edison Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James The really tough choices…don’t center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values. Rushworth Kidder Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do. Elvis Presley Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard. Sathya Sai Baba The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference. David Schmidt Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Albert Schweitzer The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. Gloria Steinem Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley Return from Ethics Quotes and Sayings about Ethics to Quotes Listed by Subject
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