Quotes about Ethics
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
— Stephen Covey
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
— John Wooden
I have tried so hard to do right.
— Grover Cleveland
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
— Edmund Burke
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
— Jonathan Edwards
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
— Karl Rahner
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.
— Marianne Williamson
It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.
— Charlie Munger
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
— John Wesley
The object of the superior man is truth.
— Confucius