Quotes about Ethics

Pushing a refrigerated green vegetable from one end of the earth to another is, let's face it, a bizarre use of fuel. But there's a simpler reason to pass up off-season asparagus: it's inferior.

Can one who hates right govern?" Job 34:13

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.

It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by.