Personal Ethics Quotes

#1. I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Ian Anderson

#2. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Elton Trueblood

#3. Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

#4. There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

Mohamed El-Erian

#5. The Code of Ethics for Nurses states that "the nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems

Beth Black

#6. My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Alva Myrdal

#7. My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Arthur Keith

#8. I knew I couldn't go back and start a new beginning. I couldn't rewrite the middle. All I could do was change tomorrow, as long as I had one.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Yoko Ono

#10. Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.

R.C. Sproul

#11. I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

Adrian Lamo

#12. I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

Linus Torvalds

#13. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Alan Sakowitz

#14. But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Price Pritchett

#15. Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One's religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#16. When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all ... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

Michael Carbonaro

#17. I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.

Woody Allen

#18. How will you deal with him?" Belses asked.
Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out
truss him up
whatever the Almighty permits us."
Supposing he's not alone?"
Oh, then, if his trusties are with him, there'll be a bonny rumpus.

John Buchan

#19. You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.

Larry Winget

#20. Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Louis XIV

#21. Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Groucho Marx

#22. Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

Gordon Fee

#23. The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

Sheri Fink

#24. You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Price Pritchett

#25. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#26. At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#27. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#28. We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good - for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

Greg Egan

#29. This is a warring universe. To survive here, one must know its ways.

Harold Klemp

#30. I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Michael Moore

#31. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#32. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Meg Greenfield

#33. I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

Cameron Russell

#34. Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck. Is

Sam Harris

#35. Successful men and women train their minds to think only about what they want to happen in their lives.

Tommy Newberry

#36. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Christopher Earle

#37. Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility (The Ten Commandments, 10).

J. Douma

#38. The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.

Christopher Penczak

#39. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.

Saul Alinsky

#40. We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards
the ethics of excellence.

Price Pritchett

#41. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

#42. It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Albert Schweitzer

#43. Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Denis Waitley

#44. There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

Meg Cabot