Quotes about Ethics
A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What we live by we die by.
- Robert Frost
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
- Abraham Lincoln
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
- Albert Camus
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Oscar Wilde
What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
- Zig Ziglar
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
- Desmond Tutu
What I stand for is what I stand on.
- Wendell Berry
Good values are easier caught than taught.
- Zig Ziglar
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.
- John Maxwell