Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom's problem isn't just this. It's continual acts that border and go sometimes beyond the ethical edge, ... They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit.

Tom's problem ... is continual acts that border and go sometimes beyond the ethical edge,

What a comeback for Michelle! For her to win this race after her injury is a testament to her work ethic and her talent.

What he called for was 'an ethical dimension to foreign policy'.

Richard Daley

We believe we will see improvement in the ethics and integrity of city government,

Mike Scioscia

What's really been impressive is to see his work ethic and how much his defense has picked up. We're really excited about that part.

Jimmy Roy

We're going to have to have a real strong work ethic and that 'never quit' attitude. I see us being a hard-working team.

Usually it has to do with work ethic and decision-making. You don?t get skated for mistakes. But if you?re making bad decisions and the effort is there for 60 minutes, that?s what the message is.

With the intrusion, and maybe rightly so, of legal concerns, medical concerns, business concerns, maybe some of that might be changing sports journalism a little bit - and maybe should change. The sports reporters of today - the good ones, anyway, working for good news organizations - shouldn't be held to any less stringent professional and ethical standards than any other journalist.

We're aware that there are many social and ethical issues related to the cloning of animals.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Charles Baudelaire

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charlie Munger

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

We applaud studies using animals to figure out ethical ways to obtain embryonic stem cells apart from the creation and destruction of human embryos. So far, however, no one appears to have accomplished this feat. Meanwhile, the good news is that adult stem cells are already providing real cures for real patients.

Michael Lerner

There are definite benefits for cancer patients among the ethical complementary cancer therapies,

We strongly urge Senators from both the Democratic and Republican Party to pass AB 1207 and then for Governor Schwarzenegger to sign it into law. Voters have the right to know whether candidates are willing to agree to refrain from using bias and prejudice as part of their election strategy or whether they intend to resort to the worst kind of election tactics. This legislation will ensure that voters know whether a particular candidate's moral values include running a morally ethical campaign.

We're in a phase where Chinese companies are beginning to think with a longer-term perspective. People are starting to see that operating in a good, ethical and well-mannered way helps you survive in the long term.

Terry Smith

There is no one thing that stands out. He just has to adjust his work ethic to that level. I think he can go right in and play. He's an impact player. As long as he can learn the system quick enough he can go right in and play.

Alex Steffen

There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

Work ethic is something that's conferred by example. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; it's about what they see.

Joseph Mawle

We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

Bill Moyers

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Bertrand Russell

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

Clarence Day

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Elizabeth Warren

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Arthur Keith

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

Barbara Ehrenreich

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Austin Phelps

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Ashley Rickards

I move on as quickly as possible. I tend to be really hard on myself anyway, which is great for work ethic and such, but sometimes outcomes are just out of your control and there was nothing you could've done anyway. If I'm at fault, I make note and do my best to try again. "No" isn't really a word I understand.

Jane Gardam

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Jamie Dimon

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.