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Quotes About Ethics

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
~ Seneca the Younger
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.
~ Guy de Rothschild
Honour always wins, it is inevitable.
~ Ishida Mitsunari
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
~ Charlie Munger
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
~ Carol Moseley Braun
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
~ Publilius Syrus
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
~ Wendell Willkie
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
~ Aristotle
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
~ Vartan Gregorian
Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.
~ John Wanamaker
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
~ Hosea Ballou
Without money honor is merely a disease.
~ Jean Racine
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
~ Herbert Hoover
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
~ David Hare
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
~ George Washington
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.
~ Carl Jung
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero