Moral Ethics Quotes

• If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

  Robert Noyce

  Business, Responsibility, Organization

  106 Copy quote

• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  16 Copy quote

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Integrity

  26 Copy quote

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  Albert Einstein

  Fun, Business, Ethics And Morals

  36 Copy quote
• 

  Do the right thing because it is right.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

  276 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

  107 Copy quote

  Show source

• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

  19 Copy quote

• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

  148 Copy quote

  Show source

• About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

  96 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Community, Survival, Morality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.336, Routledge

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Character, Power

  "The Civil Sphere". Book by Jeffrey C. Alexander, p. 388, 2006.

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

  83 Copy quote

• The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart

  "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cheating, Integrity

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

  496 Copy quote

• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

  10 Copy quote

• What is moral is what you feel good after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have the courage to face the truth

  W. Clement Stone

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  107 Copy quote

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

  82 Copy quote

  Show source