Quotes about Ethics
A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.
- Og Mandino
Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.
- Og Mandino
Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay
- Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
- Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
- Oscar Wilde
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
- Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
- Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
- Oscar Wilde
It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
- Oscar Wilde