Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
– Epictetus
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities
– Josiah Charles Stamp
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein
Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
– Marcus Aurelius
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
– C.S. Lewis
There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethics are more important than laws.
– Wynton Marsalis
We may pretend that we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise
– Terry Hands
The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
– Albert Einstein
The time is always right to do what is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do, the hard part is doing it.
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization
– Robert Noyce
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.
– Hsi-Tang Chih Tsang
Let each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he may be able to learn and find some one who will make him able to learn and discern between good and evil, and so to choose always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity.
– Plato
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
– Potter Stewart
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
– Albert Camus
Ethics are not about what is right or wrong, but about what is just and fair for all.
Ethics are not only a personal responsibility, but also a professional and social duty.
The true test of one’s ethics is not in their words, but in their actions.
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
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
– Spencer Johnson
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
– Voltaire
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
– Baltasar Gracian
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
– Mark Twain
Great people have great values and great ethics.
– Jeffrey Gitomer
Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
– Immanuel Kant
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be a necessary good for the well-being of the people.
– B. R. Ambedkar
Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.
– Zaman Ali
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.
– Edward Hennessy
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
– Albert Einstein
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
– Isak Dinesen
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
– R. Buckminster Fuller
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling
– Valdemar W. Setzer
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
Ethics are not only about avoiding wrong, but also actively doing good.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
– Steven Pinker
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
– Albert Einstein
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
– George Eliot
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
– Heinrich Heine
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
– Arthur C. Clarke
Ethics are not a set of rules to live by, but a compass to guide us through life’s moral dilemmas.
As for those that have faith and do good works, God will bestow on them their rewards and enrich them from his own abundance.
– Koran
Everything of value is defenseless.
– Lucebert
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
– David Hume
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
– Stephen Covey
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
– Harold Kushner
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
– Albert Einstein
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
– Samuel Johnson
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
– Leon Blum
To starve to death is a small thing, but to lose one’s integrity is a great one.
– Chinese proverb
Ethics are not about the end result, but about the journey and the choices we make along the way.
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
– Kate Atkinson
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
– Edmund Burke
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
– Albert Schweitzer
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
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
– Herbert Spencer
Good and evil are asymmetrical; there are more ways to harm people than to help them, and harmful acts can hurt them to a greater degree than virtuous acts can make them better off.
– Steven Pinker
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
– Immanuel Kant
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
– Roy Disney
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
– Peter F. Drucker
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards – the ethics of excellence.
– Price Pritchett
He who knows much,
speaks with silence.
– Amharic saying
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
– Kerry Stokes
Being good is good business
– Anita Roddick
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
– Plato
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
– Albert Schweitzer
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed cuts through, clarifies, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
– Gordon Gekko
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
– Jane Addams
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
– William Hazlitt
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
– Wayne Dyer
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
– Henry Adams
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
– Aristotle
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
– Seneca
He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
– St. Gregory
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
– Henry Ford
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
– Anne Frank
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
– Immanuel Kant
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right.
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
– Benjamin Franklin
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
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
– Confucious
Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
– Laura Schlessinger
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
– Henry Louis Mencken
A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.
– Felix Adler
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
– Lincoln Steffens
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
– Zig Ziglar
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
– Bertrand Russell
Treating people with respect will gain one wide acceptance and improve the business.
– Tao Zhu Gong
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers.
– Samuel Butler
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
– Albert Schweitzer
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
– Christopher Hitchens
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
– Arthur Keith
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I’m not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
– Corin Nemec
I’d rather be right than President.
– Henry Clay
In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics.
– Henry Paulson