Quotes About Ethics

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.