Quotes About Ethics

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.