Here are some quotes related to ethics along with the authors’ names:
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” – Potter Stewart
“Honest hearts produce honest actions.” – Brigham Young
“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.” – Jane Addams
“Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A civilization has the ethics it can afford.” – Larry Niven
“Honor is better than honors.” – Abraham Lincoln
“We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards — the ethics of excellence.” – Price Pritchett
“The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.” – Zig Ziglar
“Stand for something. Don’t quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.” – Howard Cosell
“Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.” – John C. Maxwell
“Discontent is the seed of ethics.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.” – D. H. Lawrence
“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
“Great people have great values and great ethics.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
“Any tool can be used for good or bad. It’s really the ethics of the artist using it.” – John Knoll
“You don’t teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.” – Judy Sheindlin
“People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.” – Wayne Dyer
“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.” – Earl Warren
“The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.” – Octavio Paz
“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.” – B. R. Ambedkar
“The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation’s in trouble.” – Dave Brat
“Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.” – Kerry Stokes
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organization not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.” – Robin S. Sharma
“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.” – Simon Mainwaring
“Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.” – Gad Saad
“I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.” – Sharad Pawar
“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.” – Bill Moyers