Quotes About Ethics

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

We can influence people for bad or good.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Be a leader for the right reasons".

Be a leader with exceptional qualities, not deceptive qualities".

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.