Quotes About Ethics

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

Always take the high road.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.