Ethics Quotes

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching" "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." "Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress." "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster" "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." "Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion." "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong." "All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill." "In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast." "And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice." "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" "He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage." "The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell." "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods." "Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors." "The time is always right to do what is right."