Quotes About Ethics

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.