Quotes About Ethics

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

People who lie, cheat and steal in relationships are communicating that they have such an inferior view of themselves that they are not worthy of another's trust.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Public office is a public trust.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.