Quotes about Ethics And Values

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.

It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang, while she offered him herself, along with disgrace and shame, and sin, and all her hopes of heaven.

Morality is only evidence of low blood pressure.

It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Absolutely, at a macro-level, I want our firm to be a purpose-led firm. This notion of making an impact that matters, I want that embedded in whatever we do.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Creí que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas más importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad.

As the old saying goes, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.

People confuse early rising with moral worth;

The Saturday Review is not a church paper. It's a secular paper. But, the other day, it said, "The desensitization of 20th century man is more than a danger to the general safety. There are some things we have no business ever getting used to.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Their "strange Divinity" results from their lacking any sense of right or wrong, good or bad.

In the Buddhist tradition, intention is about living each moment with integrity and in keeping with what matters most to you. Buddhists

Such sudden respectability for undisciplined self-interest is one of the most surprising developments of the last three decades. It seems to indicate just how confused our society has become.