Ethics Quotes and Sayings

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
– C.S. Lewis

Non- violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
– Thomas A. Edison

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson

Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
– Albert Einstein

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do, the hard part is doing it.

The time is always right to do what is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
– Baltasar Gracian

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
– Albert Camus

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.
– Hsi-Tang Chih Tsang

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
– George Eliot

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
– Voltaire

We may pretend that we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise
– Terry Hands

There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
– John F. Kennedy

Being good is good business
– Anita Roddick

Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.
– Zaman Ali

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
– W. Clement Stone

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
– Roy Disney

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
– John Berger

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
– Immanuel Kant

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
– Albert Einstein

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
– Albert Einstein

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
– Henry Louis Mencken

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C.S. Lewis

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
– Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
– Albert Einstein

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
– Edmund Burke