Quotes About Ethics

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

75% to 90% of American trial lawyers are incompetent, dishonest, or both.

Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

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

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

To you sir, this may appear strange; it may appear impertinent; it may appear astonishing; but to me, sir, who am as uncorrupted, us unprotected by power, it is a duty which every honest man out of office should observe towards every rogue in.

would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong. It is only this eternally sounding in his ears that it is his duty to go right which makes him go the very reverse. The

Whatever may be advanced by philosophers to the contrary, I am of opinion that, as to nations, the old maxim, that "honesty is the best policy," is a sheer and ruinous mistake. It might have answered well enough in the honest times when it was made; but, in these degenerate days, if a nation pretends to rely merely upon the justice of its dealings, it will fare something like the honest man who fell among thieves, and found his honesty a poor protection against bad company. Such

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

Character is contagious.

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

Another time, as they walked down Lexington Avenue together, Trump saw a newspaper headline announcing the arrest of a New Jersey mayor for allegedly taking an $800,000 bribe from a developer. "There is no goddamn mayor in America worth $800,000," Trump bellowed. "I can buy a U.S. senator for $200,000.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

They can't afford to solve the issues because they've turned the conflict itself into profit.

If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

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

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