“Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?” ThinkingMenGovernmentSuccessBehindsMoralExerciseOfficeEthicsMen And WomenAdvantageFundOfficersSecretaryGrown ManMoral Leadership Author:Meg Greenfield
“There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.” WayPersonsHappensSuccessGoalMoralChristianityGreaterMajorsDisasterStationsStoppingHazardsMoral Hazard Author:Bill Vaughan
“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.” LoveLifeHappinessSuccessPoliticalPoliticsAttitudeMoralFamilyEffectsHeroGainsVisibleProtestSignificanceHeroicDisobedienceNo Hope Author:Vaclav Havel
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksEndsGovernmentSuccessChangeBusinessMoralHavensChangedSelf ImprovementLoserBusiness SuccessCompassMoral Compass Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.” IfsMenWorldGivingDoneCharacterBigsSuccessIndividualForcePeaceWaterMoralVirtueHonestyPrideIntegrityInstitutionsTinyInvisibleHardestGreat ThingsBig ThingsMonumentUbuntu Author:William James
“According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.” SuccessBeliefChallengesMoralSuccessfulOutcomesAssuredAbsolutismMoral Absolutism Author:Jon Krakauer