Ethic Quotes

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

Others, Wonderful, Whole

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
Will Smith

Work, Working, While

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher

Good, Christmas, Kindness

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
Amy Adams

Work, Good, Girl

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.
Tiger Woods

Work, Understand, Far

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson

Accept, Choice, Growth

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Today, School

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
William S. Burroughs

Possible, Wants

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.
Katy Perry

Work, Reality, Idea

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

Success, Good, Successful

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
Rachael Ray

Work, Humor, Good

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
Henry Louis Gates

Success, Black, Poor

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall

Son, American, Brother

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
Shirley MacLaine

Work, Person, Once

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
Lisa Leslie

Work, Age, Winning

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.
Jo Brand

Work, Saying, Actually

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Work, Strong, Granted

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Bell Hooks

Love, Greatest, Justice

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint

Work, Family, Nature

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.
Drew Carey

Work, Strong, Job

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
Jonathan Sacks

Society, Revolution, Moral

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
Jonathan Sacks

Time, Good, God

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Donny Osmond

Work, Father, Worth

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
Danielle Steel

Work, Fun, Hard

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
Kevin Mitnick

Life, School, Path

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
C. J. Cherryh

Family, Home, Society

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
David Rockefeller

Christian, Played, Essential

I have gotten disturbed at... some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.
Jamie Dimon

Work, Successful, Behavior

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
Damian Lewis

Work, End, Level

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
Thomas Friedman

Through, Drive, Amazon

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