#ethic

When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I asked her why she wasn't having chicken with my older brother and me: "I don't want to hurt anything." [...] What our babysitter said made sense to me, not only because it seemed true, but because it was the extension to food of everything my parents had taught me. We don't hurt family members. We don't hurt friends or strangers. We don't even hurt upholstered furniture. My not having thought to include animals in that list didn't make them the exceptions to it. It just made me a child, ignorant of the world's workings. Until I wasn't. At which point I had to change my life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#change

Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#motivational #respect #work-ethic #inspirational

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#inspiration #inspirational #motivate #motivation #never-give-up

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. ↗

— Alice Bag

#inspirational #life #philosophy #inspirational

What men do matters more than what they know. ↗

— John Christopher

#men

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#inspirational #l-arche #inspirational

Good is the enemy of great. ↗

— Jim Collins

#work-ethic #inspirational

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. ↗

— Jason Fried

#deeds #inspirational #work-ethic #inspirational

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#ethics #jesus #love #morality #principles

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#filmmaking #inspirational #life #passion #responsibility