Quotes About Ethics

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.