Quotes About Ethics

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."(Analects 2.12)

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.

Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

Honor, " she said, "is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.