Quotes about Ethics

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.