Quotes about Ethics

A lie is any communication with intent to deceive.

if you are an effective manager of yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Principles control consequences; values control behavior.

The more our values are in harmony with principles, the better decisions we will make… and the more inner peace we will have.

What you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based… never compromise with honesty

Humility is the mother of all virtues.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. When you defend those who are absent, you retain the trust of those present.

Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life.