Quotes about Ethics

Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step."

With success come options. How we use those options reveals our character.

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

Influence begins with who you are.

Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.