Quotes About Ethics

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

These four gifts—self-awareness, conscience, creative imagination, and independent will—reside in the space we

The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by.

you can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into." *

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They're fundamental.

You can't find good people these days. There's too much turnover, absenteeism, moonlighting. People just don't care anymore.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Personality and Character Ethics

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Integrity is walk our talk

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you'll see this in every long-term relationship they have, whether it is with a business associate, a spouse, a friend, or a teenage child going through an identity crisis. It is character that communicates most eloquently.

One of the most important commitments in a family or a business is never to bad-mouth. Always be loyal to those who are absent, if you want to retain those who are present

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children seem to have an innate