Quotes About Ethics

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Integrity is the core of our character.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.