Quotes about Ethics
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
— Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
— Samuel Johnson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
— William Faulkner
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
— Confucius
The superior man limits his achievements.
— Confucius
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw