Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Bertrand Russell

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

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.

Jason Allen

We?re setting a mark and expectations for the program. It says a lot about those youngsters, their work ethic and their never-say-die attitude.

Arthur Keith

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

She is able to run, but it's really painful. As a coach, you've got to figure out what you can put a kid through. It's an ethical thing. It could be good, but it could be not as good.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint.

Bill Clinton

Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!

We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.

Aristotle

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Ray LaHood

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

She's just a hard worker and a natural talent. She just needs to keep her work ethic up. We'll give her the workouts, and she'll hit the times like I know she will.

She's everything you can't put on a stat sheet. I'd rather have a Sarah than girls who have that lucky touch. Her hustle and work ethic is infectious. It's that heart muscle. She's our quintessential leader by example.

Lawrence Timmons

I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.

We send them all through McDonald's. It's a great place to teach kids the ethics of working. We require them to put half their paycheck in the bank.

Lance Armstrong

The question is not about me but about the process and the ethics,

The proof was overwhelming. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

Adrian Grenier

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

Aleksandar Hemon

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Albert Einstein

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Rick Perry is taking his ethics lessons from Tom DeLay.

My talent and work ethic will get me there.

Jenny Lewis

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

I did it to remind them that they need to work. That work ethic is starting to pay off.

I'd like to thank Jamey for his long-standing and numerous contributions to the Nationals-Expos franchise. During his time here, Jamey was the ultimate teammate, whose integrity and work ethic were contagious.

I can learn about a client's ethics by watching how he handles shooting over a limit or not.

Alain Badiou

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

We should have won by more, we needed some more patience, but I love the work ethic and the way we are playing for each other.

Udonis Haslem

My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

D. H. Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Clare Short

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.