Quotes About Ethics

Our new paradigm was created as we invested in the growth and development of our own character.

make decisions based on our values and not how we felt in the moment.

you're not going to talk your way out of a problem you behaved yourself into.

That leadership is primarily a function of who you are, for this is the foundation for everything you do. How do you build leaders? You first build character.

Universal principles or natural laws, such as responsibility, integrity, abundance and renewal

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth—in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words—in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Sigmund Freud said that the conscience is primarily a product of our early life and culture.

Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness of goodness in their character

A lie is any communication with intent to deceive

if you are an effective manager of yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

La capacidad para subordinar los impulsos a los valores es la esencia de la persona proactiva. Las personas reactivas se ven impulsadas por sentimientos, por las circunstancias, por las condiciones, por el ambiente. Las personas proactivas se mueven por valores: valores cuidadosamente meditados, seleccionados e interiorizados.

Principles control consequences; values control behavior.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

The more our values are in harmony with principles, the better decisions we will make… and the more inner peace we will have.

What you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based… never compromise with honesty

There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have the human relations techniques or not, we trust them, and we work successfully with them.

humility is the mother of all virtues

Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk

what is the truth about the inner motivations, character, and ambition of those who hold power?

Only basic goodness gives life to technique. To

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their

An agreement means very little in letter without the character and relationship base to sustain it in spirit.

Stephen R. Covey