Quotes About Ethics

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.