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Quotes About Ethics

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
~ Ed McMahon
Integrity has no need of rules.
~ Albert Camus
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
~ Brian Tracy
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
~ Mary Kay Ash
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
~ George Berkeley
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.
~ Lester Maddox
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
~ Anne Holm, I Am David
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
~ Jamie Oliver
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
~ Stephen Covey
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
~ M.J. Rose, Lying In Bed
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
~ Anthony Trollope
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
~ Thomas Paine
Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?
~ Jimmy Demaret
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
~ Winston Churchill
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
~ Victor Hugo
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
~ Plutarch
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.
~ Jackie Mason