Quotes About Ethics

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.

There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. Morals. Ethics. People in Chicago do the right thing. If somebody falls on the street, someone will actually stop and help them up. That doesn't happen in certain other cities.

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.

I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.