Quotes About Ethics

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.