Quotes about Ethics

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service—for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right—then money abundantly takes care of itself.

People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen speak out to achieve good for their people, not to win votes. Statesmen promote the general good rather than regional or personal self-interest.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.