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Quotes About Ethics

Don't regret doing things, regret getting caught.
~ Unknown
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
~ Unknown
Sex before marriage is wrong? Would you buy a car without test driving it?
~ Unknown
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.
~ Confucius
I pray to God that all leaders in all areas of life, lead with responsibility, accountability and respect at all times.
~ Unknown
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
~ Confucius
Ive got to make really good decisions. And that helps me in my real life because its that little voice in my head telling me right from wrong. More than just for myself, but for the girls who are watching me.
~ Unknown
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
~ Tyga
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.
~ Unknown
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
~ Earl Warren
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living
~ Juvenal
Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil
~ Seneca
Whatever you are, be a good one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
~ Leon Trotsky
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
~ Corliss Lamont
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
~ Phil Bredesen
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~ Unknown
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
~ Immanuel Kant
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents
~ John Wanamaker