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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Ethics.
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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