Quotes About Ethics

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Honor lies in honest toil.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.