Quotes About Ethics

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

The end doesn't justify the means.

The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.