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- The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside…
- You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
- We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to…
- When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in…
- But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease.…
- Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
- You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . .…
- The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future?…
- The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes,…
- The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low…
- The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start…
- We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.
- Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a…
More Ethics Quotes
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. — Philip James Bailey
- Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be… — John Perry Barlow
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams