Quotes About Ethics

The most important decision we make is whether to be honestly fake or fake honesty.

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes' you know he is crooked.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Honor is better than honors.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that?

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.